Quotes About Creativity

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.