Art Quote by John Marin

A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since…

— John Marin

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

— Frank Herbert

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

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

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

— Anna Deavere Smith

Perfection is just a way for us to say you are an imperfect work of art.

— Silence

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Aristotle

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden…

— Dejan Stojanovic