Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

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.

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.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

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.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

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

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

As an artist, you reflect the world around you. To do that, you must dive in, take risks, fall on your face, win, and sometimes lose a great deal.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

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.

Sometimes you write songs that don't all fit together. What do you, just throw them away? This might be a chance for growth and learning. It could be a horrible fall-on-your-face kind of experiment.

I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself.

I think TV, at times, is incredibly regressive, but I guess with the way few people are ready to experiment, the progressive streak has slowly crept in.

I think that's kind of the perfect mix, where you do something that you're not sure about, you feel like you're taking a risk, and then you turn around and look at the artists that you're collaborating with and you can read the expression on their face if they like it or they hate it.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is.

Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

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