Blaise Pascal Quotes

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

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?

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

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

Art has no end but its own perfection.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Leo's goals are works of art.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.