Art Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only…

— John Marin

Art exists because life is not enough.

— Ferreira Gullar

Art is born out of an ill-designed world

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

— Andre Maurois