Me and nice things didn't go well together.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

— Joseph Campbell

“Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions…

— Bryant McGill

The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the…

— Steven Pinker

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of…

— Helen Frankenthaler

“I make no promises and bear no liability for your lunacy, her clumsiness or any injury my unfortunate luck, uncharacteristic ineptitude or continual stupidity…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

— Jean-Luc Godard

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

— Franz Grillparzer

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

— Edgard Varese

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter…

— John Ruskin

Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night…

— Michelle Huneven

My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

— Kim Kardashian

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

— Virginia Woolf