Not Perfect Art Quotes

#1. Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#2. Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.

Clement Of Alexandria

#3. It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

Ayn Rand

#4. There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

Carlo Ponti

#5. Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

Spoken Reasons

#6. A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#7. It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.

Ted Dekker

#8. I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.

Agnes Martin

#9. Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter;

Scott Jonathan Nixon

#10. Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

Jack London

#12. In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Robert Musil

#15. I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it.

Madlib

#16. I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

Ani DiFranco

#17. Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

Shakti Gawain

#18. All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

Robin Morgan

#19. God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Immanuel Kant

#20. The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Maria Montessori

#21. Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one.

Max Brooks

#22. The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

Helen DeWitt

#23. Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#25. We fail at romantic love when we have not learned the art of loving. It's as simple as that. Often we confuse perfect passion with perfect love.

Bell Hooks

#26. There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

Leon Battista Alberti

#27. I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

#28. There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?

Thomm Quackenbush

#29. It must not remain our desire only to acquire the art of the bird," Lilienthal had written. "It is our duty not to rest until we have attained a perfect scientific conception of the problem of flight.

David McCullough

#30. However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

Martin Luther

#31. I was a perfect gentlemen."
Logan snorts. "Well, that's a first."
"Fuck you very much. I happen to be skilled in the art of gentlemanry."
"That's not an art. Or a work." Logan rolls his eyes.

Elle Kennedy

#32. Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

Keaton Stromberg

#33. Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Brandon Boyd

#34. I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

Henry Moore

#35. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo Da Vinci

#36. Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#37. I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

David Altmejd

#38. I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

Craig David

#39. Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

Susan Sontag

#40. I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

James Gray

#41. Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Calder

#42. Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Jerry Saltz

#43. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.

George MacDonald

#44. O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

Jim Morrison

#45. Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it...

Mykyta Isagulov

#46. Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Jan Tschichold

#47. Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

Daniel Silva

#48. It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)

Felicia Day

#49. The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

Samael Aun Weor

#50. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

Edgar Allan Poe

#51. If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.

Ivor Bulmer-Thomas

#52. The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#53. Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

Daisaku Ikeda

#54. Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#55. Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Jan Tschichold

#56. Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

Edward Bach

#57. One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam.

Douglas Wilson

#58. To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

#59. Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Bill Veeck

#60. The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

William Cullen Bryant

#61. Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Edward Abbey

#62. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

Yann Martel