Creating art is basically creating a series of failures

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes

— James Altucher

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

— Gisela Richter

Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.

— Susan Minot

Art is basically entertainment.

— Yasumasa Morimura

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept…

— Conor Oberst

“Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign”

— John Gardner

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

— John Chamberlain

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

— Pharrell Williams

Technically, I direct, I'm a writer, and I do all these things, but I never went to school for them. It's just something you…

— Ryan Higa

When I'm creating art or music, when something is resonating or a scene is going well, that almost feels religious to me... there's this…

— Sophie Thatcher

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their…

— Bob Iger

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

— Henry James

“Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it,”

— Francesca Zappia

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach