Art Quote by John Connolly

“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”

— Dörthe Binkert

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll never understand…

— Ian McEwan

“A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an…

— Steve Stockman

“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.”

— Cervantes

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Remember, art is an extension of self. ......... The unique distinction of being created in the image of God is that what we create…

— Erwin Raphael McManus

“Even the greatest of painters cannot produce, however strenuously he exerts himself in pursuit of variety, more than 12 or 13 individual masterpieces. So…

— Soseki Natsume

“Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first…

— John Ruskin

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt