Quotes About Perfection

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Drawing is the true test of art.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

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

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

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.