Quotes About Risk

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.