Aesthetic Quote by Cecil Beaton

“The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of…

— R. G. Collingwood

“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness to failures…

— Sarah Lewis

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

— Luc Tuymans

“Creating art is basically creating a series of failures”

— Alex Pardee

Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not…

— Semir Zeki

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

— Clive Bell

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why…

— Guy Davenport

“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

— Owen Jones

“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing at re-cycling…

— Jean Baudrillard

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has…

— Anonymous

“Elusive success is not the same as failure.”

— Damon Throop