“The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.” MenInspirationalMindInspirationArtistSufferingPerfectHe ManPerfection Author:T. S. Eliot
“Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.” IdeasArtistApproachPerfection Author:Odilon Redon
“At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.” MeanArtistPerfectionUltimateDisasterRemindersPerfectionismFussing Book:A Painter of Our Time Source: A Painter of Our Time
“You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.” DoeArtArtistPerfectionStand Your Ground Author:Mike Tyson
“If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.” IfsFeelsMadeArtistTermModernIdealsPerfectionImportanceNotionConfusionPainterMasterpieceQualmsQualms About Author:Andre Malraux
“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.” EndsAmericaArtistEffortAdventurePerfectionThirdsStriveChinaMediumsOver ItGapsLeapImperfectUnfinishedColumbusSuperhumanPredetermined Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944 Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944