Art Quote by John Marin

Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not…

— John Marin

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

— William Blake

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

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence…

— Walter Benjamin

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art,…

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Justin Tucker

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

— George Santayana

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

— Aristotle

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed…

— John Mason Good

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh