Quotes About Creativity

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

Innovation without insight is failure.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.