Art Quote by Liu Dan

It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

— Vivienne Westwood

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

— Oscar Wilde

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

— Thomas A. Edison

The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone…

— Jack White

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of…

— John Dryden

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better…

— William Butler Yeats

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically,…

— Devendra Banhart

Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the…

— Walter Sickert

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are…

— Paul Gauguin

“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness to failures…

— Sarah Lewis

Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not…

— Semir Zeki