Art Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each…

— Maurice Blanchot

“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!”

— Avijeet Das

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

— Theodor Adorno

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed…

— John Mason Good

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

— Dore Ashton

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

— Niklas Luhmann

“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he…

— T.S. Eliot

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

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we…

— Clarence Day