Kevin Smith Quotes

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

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

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

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

My view is that you have to take risks. Not everything is going to work out, but it's sort of the fun of fashion, right?