Saul Bass Quotes

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, that hasn't been seen before?

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Play is experimenting with chance.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

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

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.