Adventure Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

I think art is the imperfectly perfect or perfectly imperfect way of self-expression.

— Justin Tucker

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

but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of…

— Laird Barron

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

— John Ruskin

Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

“The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways into the…

— N.T. Wright

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art…

— Emily Haines

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never…

— Dave Liebman

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

— Michiko Kakutani

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

— Oscar Wilde