Art Quote by Michelangelo

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

— Paul Valery

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

— Bente Borsum

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

— Andrea Riseborough

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

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

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

— John Cage

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

— Robert Breault

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet…

— Ellen Terry

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally…

— Erica Jong

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought…

— Carl Andre