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“When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.”

Art Light Speak White Sun Materials Perfection Painter Shade Yellow Patents

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.”

World Light Perfection Painter Canvas Breeze Dew Freshness

Book:John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science

Source: John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science

“The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.”

Art Perfection Majority Boring Painter Boredom Exactitude Conscientiousness

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.”

People Ifs Art Attention Consciousness Minutes Cold Perfection Criticism Majority Boring Painter Canvas Exactitude

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.”

Looks Shows Fantasy Perfection Painter Magazines Imperfection Nazi Forbidden Sculptors Physique Pinup

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“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.”

Ifs Feels Made Artist Term Modern Ideals Perfection Importance Notion Confusion Painter Masterpiece Qualms Qualms About

Author:Andre Malraux

“The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.”

Art Found Progress Failing Perfection Method Simplicity Technique Reputation Painter Charm

Author:Honore de Balzac

“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”

“When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.”

Source: Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing