Ancient Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which is ultimately…

— John Connolly

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

— Anonymous

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

— Agnes Martin

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 not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

— Peter Doig

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

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky