Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I tend to make bolder and more interesting choices after I've done theatre.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

I completely follow my gut and do what I like doing. I have become impulsive in a good way. I am taking creative risks as an actor.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.