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“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

“In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.”

May Painting Perfection Studios Composition Arrangements

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.”

Knows Sometimes Done Painting Fine Perfection Shining Clean Paint Quitting Polish

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“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

“There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.”

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.”

Painting Appreciate Perfection Difficulty Appreciation Intellect Melody Copies Reminders

Author:Michelangelo

“You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.”

Mind Art Perfect Painting Perfection

Author:Agnes Martin

“I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.”

Mind Art Made Facts Perfect Clear Painting Perfection Made It

Book:Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond

Source: Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond

“For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.”

Feels Soul Religious Perfect Christianity Divine Painting Pure Shadow Perfection Harmony Paint Strive Melody Endeavor Strife Pencils

Author:Michelangelo

“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”

People Men Needs Art Real Beautiful Spiritual Literature Painting Expression Wall Perfection Sensual Eras Landscape Materialism Refuge Caves Rudeness Oasis Real Ones Prehistoric Bison

Author:Fernando Botero

“One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.”

Kind Eye Beautiful Painting Perfection Pupils Impeccable

Author:William-Adolphe Bouguereau

“Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”

Men Needs Art Literature Painting Perfection Materialism Rudeness Oasis Bison

Author:Fernando Botero