84 result(s) for Art Quotes About Risking One’s Life.
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
"There has never been a work of art which did not first exist in the artist's mind."
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
"I am willing to risk it all, that is, to risk my work."
"To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail."
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
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"If you don't risk anything you risk even more."
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
"The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is."
"The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
"A person who is not willing to take a risk is doomed never to learn."
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
"The real risk is doing nothing."
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
"A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in a creative way is not just making stuff. It's facing the world from a courageous, inventive, and curious place."
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
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"I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't be here today."
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."
"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."
"The danger is to do nothing."
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
"To create, one must first question everything."
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
"Without passion, you don't have energy. Without energy, you have nothing."
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"Leap, and the net will appear."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
"I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
"There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask 'What if I fall?' Oh but my darling, What if you fly?"
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
"The greatest risk of all is not taking one."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."
"Take risks. If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."
"Everything you've ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun."
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act."
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
"You can measure a man by the risks he's willing to take."
"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."
"Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."
"Sometimes you have to risk it all for a dream only you can see."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist."
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"If I am going to be a failure, I want to be the biggest failure there ever was."
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
"A man paints with his brains, not with his hands."
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"In order to create, you have to risk being wrong."
"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."
"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
"There can be no progress if people do not venture beyond the familiar."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
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