Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

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

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

— Alice Neel

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

— John Ruskin

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

— William Blake

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

— Giannina Braschi

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

— John Ruskin

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

— Shea Hembrey

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

— Seth Godin