Art Failure Quotes

#1. When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

Ann Voskamp

#2. This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.

J. Jack Halberstam

#3. Real artists risk failure every time they release their work into the world. If your words are going to matter, you will have to do the same. You will have to let go. Until you do, you're not creating art. You're just screwing around.

Jeff Goins

#4. Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

John Walford

#5. In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

Criss Jami

#6. My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Laurence Housman

#7. If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. In contrast to modern art, which causes displeasure-modern art, by definition, hurts. In this precise sense, modern art is sublime: it causes pleasure-in-pain, it produces its effect through its own failure, insofar as it refers to the impossible Things.

Slavoj Zizek

#9. No book is ever perfect
No piece of art is ever perfect
No meal I cook is ever perfect
But at some point we have to eat ...

Tasha Turner

#10. Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

Derek R. Audette

#11. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.

Tyler Hojberg

#13. Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Brian Eno

#14. Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

John Ashbery

#15. There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

#16. The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.

Sun Tzu

#17. The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Seth Godin

#18. Here was a man who defied all odds, lived by himself, worked, created beautiful art. A complex mind stumped by some of the simplest tasks.
If he could, he would keep trying until there was only absolute failure or success.
How many people could say that?

Adrienne Wilder

#19. How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.

Richard Schmid

#20. 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.

Wade Guyton

#21. These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men ...

Sun Tzu

#22. If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Malcolm McLaren

#24. Translation is the art of failure.

Umberto Eco

#25. Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.

Lachlan Murdoch

#26. If we don't learn the art of patience and trust, we will end up assuming that we are a failure.

Abhishek Krishnan

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

Oscar Isaac

#28. Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Benjamin Graham

#29. What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought. The danger they represent equals our own failure to be dangerous.'
'And the more clearly we see terror, the less impact we feel from art.

Don DeLillo

#30. I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Malcolm McLaren

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

Russell Edson

#32. Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

Sam Dunn

#33. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...

James Cameron

#34. Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Ginnetta Correli

#35. I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Robert Piper

#36. To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#37. In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

Grace Hartigan

#38. The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#39. Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

Henry Johnson Jr

#40. The industrialist (your boss, perhaps) demands that everything be proven, efficient, and risk free. The artist seeks none of these. The value of art is in your willingness to stare down the risk and to embrace the void of possible failure.

Seth Godin

#41. As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

John Wooden

#42. A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

Alain De Botton

#43. It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)

Felicia Day

#44. He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Charles Baudelaire

#45. Dream is like an Art.
Faith is like a Color.
Failure is like a Water.
If u drop a water on a art,it will affect the art not the color.
Never lose it.Life has to go on

Saravanan

#46. All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

Luc Tuymans

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

C.S. Lewis

#48. I believe only in art and failure.

Jane Rule

#49. Dream is like a Art.
Faith is like a Color.
Failure is like a Water.
If u drop a water on a art,it will affect the art not the color.
Never lose it.

Saravanan Writer

#50. I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Billy Childish

#51. Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

#52. As Henry Moore carved
or modelled his sculpture every day,
he strove to surpass Donatello
4. and failed, but woke the next morning
elated for another try.

Donald Hall

#53. But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen.

Pope Francis

#54. In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles ... Contemporary or postmodernist art ... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.

Fredric Jameson

#55. 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.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#56. In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Bernard Lown

#57. God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Victor Hugo

#58. It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned one school of art into another was a result of endless failure.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

#59. To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

David Mamet

#60. Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

Antony Gormley

#61. Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

Lee Hammond

#62. Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.

Scott Farris