Acquire Quote by Voltaire

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

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

— Anonymous

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

— Andrea Riseborough

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

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

— Vicki Baum

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Elizabeth Isaacs

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

— Michelangelo

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find…

— Richard Schickel

“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen