Accident Quote by Cai Guo-Qiang

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

— Edgar Degas

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

— Francis Bacon

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable,…

— Martin Filler

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too…

— Amy Sillman

“Art is not an assembly of accidents. You have to master the rules before you break them.”

— M. Pierce

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is…

— Jackson Pollock

“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what…

— David Bayles

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,

— Robert Rauschenberg

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does…

— Henry James

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful,…

— Francis Ford Coppola

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase…

— Salman Rushdie