Art Quote by John Ruskin

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

— Silence

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

— Anna Deavere Smith

“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the…

— John Ruskin

At some point, I'm just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect. I think it's beautiful in its…

— Colman Domingo

Art has no end but its own perfection.

— Plato

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

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

— Michelangelo

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art…

— Emily Haines

It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

— Adrian Younge

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that…

— Agnes Martin

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings…

— Bette Midler

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