Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

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

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

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

At some point, I'm just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect. I think it's beautiful in its imperfection. You could tweak something forever, but you have to let it go and trust it.

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.