Art Quote by Nick Cave

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

— 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

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

“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

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

— Gustav Holst

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

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

— Auguste Rodin

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

— Questlove

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

— Charles Kettering

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

— Marina Abramovic

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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