Art Quote by John Berger

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

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

— Laurence Overmire

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

— Montgomery Clift

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and…

— Edward Steichen

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...

— Eric Maisel

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

— Marina Abramovic

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the…

— William Faulkner

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

— e. e. cummings

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

— Auguste Rodin

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

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

— Samuel Beckett