Quotes About Mistakes In Art

#1. No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Henry Petroski

#2. I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.

Tommy Lee Jones

#3. It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

David Ogilvy

#4. This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Dan Rather

#5. One of the greatest mistakes we make is to idolize the artist rather than the art.

Charles F. Glassman

#6. What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Paul Gauguin

#7. Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

William James

#8. To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#9. The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your mistakes. There are sophomore mistakes that people do at the beginning that you spot everywhere. For example, a lot of people make 'W's by turning 'M's upside down.

Jessica Hische

#10. No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.

Pablo Picasso

#11. Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

Lionel Trilling

#13. There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

Wavy Gravy

#14. And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.

Neil Gaiman

#15. When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

Wong Shun Leung

#16. Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

Robert Rodriguez

#17. I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

Christopher Meloni

#18. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

Jerrod Carmichael

#20. The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

Garry Kasparov

#21. To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

Anthony Marais

#22. We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Bob Ross

#23. Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

Don Van Vliet

#24. A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.

Deborah Turbeville

#25. There are no mistakes in art.

Maria Renteria

#26. In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

Walter Darby Bannard

#27. Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Len Wein

#28. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

#29. People. Mortals, capable of making mistakes. People always make mistakes. Day in, day out. We are experts in the art of the accident.

Jessica Thompson

#30. In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#31. The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of art. I wanted him to shape me with his love and intelligence. I wanted him to edit out my mistakes and many indulgences, with a sharp red pencil or a clean eraser.

Alysia Abbott

#32. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

#33. Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Jason Reitman

#34. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso