Cate Blanchett Quotes

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

The more established you are, the less likely you are to do something ridiculous, which is one reason I'm proud to put out a wrestling album. If you stop and you go, 'Well, what if people don't like it?,' if you're already established in what you do, that'll strike fear into your heart.

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

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

I'm always trying to do weird things - when you have that part of your mission statement as an actor, half of that stuff that ends up being made is probably garbage.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.