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“My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.”

Ideas Moments Perfect Watches Special Painting Type Shapes Filled Everyday Details Mood Realistic Everyday Life Viewers Surrealism Grotesque Dripping Surrealist Special Moments

Author:Ian Hornak

“The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.”

Art Light Truth Perfect Painting Truth Is One Day Faithful Sunshine Afternoon Marvelous Convincing Gallery Rainy Another Day Light Within Replica

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.”

Ifs Knows Wells Enough Certain Perfect Painting Perfection Indifferent Great Success

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.”

Facts Might Process Perfect Creation Painting Habit Painter Retiring Dissatisfaction Completion Insufficiency

Author:Lucian Freud

“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.”

Ends Stories Three Process Perfect Painting Built Depth Unconscious Pathways Dreamworks

Author:Billy Cannon

“Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.”

Ifs Way Feels I Can Done Artist Perfect Emotion Painting Performances

Author:Jimmy Page

“It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?”

Perfect Interesting Painting Perfection

Author:Peter Doig

“Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.”

Perfect Quality Painting Perfection Hurrying

Author:Satish Kumar