Art Quote by Eric Maisel

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him…

— John Berger

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

— Nick Cave

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does…

— Bridget Riley

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

— Charles Horton Cooley

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

— Laurence Overmire

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

— Luc Tuymans

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

— Montgomery Clift

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

— Gustav Holst

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not…

— Loren Weisman

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

— Robert Piper

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

— Marcel Proust