Accepting Quote by Russell Edson

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

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

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God…

— Henry de Montherlant

To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

In any art, if you want to become successful, you have to be willing to sacrifice.

— Johnny Lever

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art…

— Emily Haines

“Whenever the occasional doubt starts to creep into my mind about my artistic ability, I start to think about the reality of having the…

— V.L. Thompson

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this…

— Pope John Paul II

“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll never understand…

— Ian McEwan

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost…

— Paul Auster