Artistic Flaw Quotes

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

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.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.