Accomplishment Quote by Joshua Reynolds

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

— John Keats

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

— John Keats

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

— John Keats

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best…

— LeRoy Neiman

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

— Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

— Aristotle

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way…

— Susan Sontag

“The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist’s own humanity in the finished piece.”

— Ted Orland

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient…

— George Stillman Hillard

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

— Daisaku Ikeda

“After all, our main business in art, as in life, is to strive. Honest effort meets with its own reward, even where it does…

— Aubertine Woodward Moore