Art Quote by Maurice Blanchot

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of Shakespeare —…

— Maurice Blanchot

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and…

— Edward Steichen

All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing…

— Joaquin Sorolla

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

— Elizabeth Isaacs

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they…

— Christina Stead

“...most art mistakes itself for the universal when it is momentary”

— Sarah Emily Miano

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

— John Cage

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and…

— Leon Battista Alberti

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re…

— Mary Button Durell

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

— Will Cotton

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively…

— Theodor Adorno

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell