Quotes About Risk

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

Creativity takes courage.

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different...

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

dangers of her past. She cared about what he provided in an otherwise dangerous world. "Russia is a hard place," she said quietly, "or it used to be. I think it still is for most people. The strong ones like Vladimir survive and climb out, and he pulled me out with him. The others don't make it, and many of them die. I might have been one of those." "You gave up your freedom for all that," he said, still

Men who fall in love with her do so at their own risk and peril. They usually know it, or suspect it, but they can't resist the gamble. She brings them to the edge of insanity, which is always a dangerous thing. If any man ever makes you feel crazy and

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.