Lucille Clifton Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

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

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

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

In subsidized theater, you are encouraged to take risks. It's about being imaginative and artistic. That's the priority. It might not be a success, but let's try.

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.

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

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.

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.

All art is based on non-conformity.

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?

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

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.'

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

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.