Top 100 Perfect Art Quotes
#1. Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
Edward Abbey
#2. 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
#3. How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
Edward Abbey
#4. The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
Gosta Mittag-Leffler
#5. As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
Robert Genn
#6. 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
#7. Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
Naguib Mahfouz
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.
David Altmejd
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
James Gray
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Jim Morrison
#17. Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it...
Mykyta Isagulov
#19. 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
#20. The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
Samael Aun Weor
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#25. 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
#26. To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder
#27. 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
#29. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.
Yann Martel
#30. 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
#31. It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.
Ayn Rand
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
Ted Dekker
#36. 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
#37. Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.
Jack London
#38. In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. 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
#40. Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
Robert Musil
#41. 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
#42. I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
Ani DiFranco
#43. 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
#44. All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
Robin Morgan
#45. 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
#46. The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
Maria Montessori
#47. Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one.
Max Brooks
#48. The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.
Helen DeWitt
#49. You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life
Woody Allen
#50. Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.
Candace Knoebel
#51. There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
Ashwin Sanghi
#52. In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
Dejan Stojanovic
#53. I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
Madeleine L'Engle
#54. There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
Diane Von Furstenberg
#55. As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
Stephen King
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art
Dean Cavanagh
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster
#62. Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
Walter Benjamin
#63. Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
Agnes Martin
#64. 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
#65. Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art.
Marcus Aurelius
#66. I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it ... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#67. Remember that however poor and needy thou art, yet the Lord thinketh upon thee. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#68. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
Emmet Fox
#69. The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#70. In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
#71. We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life
Jasper Fforde
#72. Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman's body is beyond a words measure; with their dazzling rawness it's impossible to perfect but I crave the need to depict such a fathomless beauty.
S.K. Logsdon
#73. I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
Damian Loeb
#74. For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.
Jeff Koons
#75. 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
#76. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
Criss Jami
#77. Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.
Edward Gibbon
#78. Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#80. There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.
Mark Crilley
#81. Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#82. My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.
Gerard Way
#83. I'm doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I'm concerned, I'll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I'll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I'm being selfish. It's perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of the fuss.
Jessie Burton
#84. The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen.
Stella Mowen
#85. The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!
Leonid Shamkovich
#86. I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.
Justin Hires
#87. The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society.
Kano Jigoro
#88. 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
#89. Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
Anna Deavere Smith
#90. 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
#91. Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
Paul Rand
#92. When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.
Tim Walker
#93. For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated.
Nike Thaddeus
#94. What a perfect escape the return to the womb was. Better by far than Religion or Art or the South Sea Islands. It was so snug and warm there, and the feeding was automatic.
Nathanael West
#95. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
#96. I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
Sean Patrick Thomas
#97. Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.
Nuno Oliveira
#98. A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
Simone Weil
#99. Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.
Emily Haines
#100. When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.
Kevin Henkes
