Art Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

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

— Anna Deavere Smith

“Creating art is basically creating a series of failures”

— Alex Pardee

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

— Will Cotton

From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense.…

— Arnold Gehlen

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present…

— Henry Fox Talbot

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

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

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each…

— Maurice Blanchot

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

— Constantin Brancusi

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

— John Ruskin

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

— Jean Cocteau