Art Quote by John Edgar Park Download Open image “All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.” — John Edgar Park ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Great art Greatness Imperfect Life
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of… — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
“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 by his individual perception. It will be saved, if at all, by the next and last step of disillusion; the realisation that complete consciousness and truth are themselves valueless, and that to acquire any genuine artistic… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life. — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality. — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
