Art Perfection Quotes

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.

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

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

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.

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

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.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

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

As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.