Ruth Negga Quotes

You cannot play for safety and make art.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

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

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

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

We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we can alter our body parts, we can act in the most perfect or right way. A lot of that is dangerous because, especially in the world of art, the chief enemy of creativity is being safe. If you're safe, you can't fall and hurt yourself. The older you are, the further down the crash is going to be. But if it works out, the higher the high.

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 think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

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.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

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

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

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

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

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

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.