Art Quote by Guy Davenport

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

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

— Jean Cocteau

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

— Will Cotton

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

— Andre Gide

It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make…

— William H. Gass

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

— Christopher Ricks

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

— Anonymous

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

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

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

— George Saunders