Hilary Swank Quotes

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 90% of what you come up with won't be used and for good reason. But you keep going for the occasional gem that you might come up with. You do a scene and a lot of the time. We wouldn't cut. So, you come up with something that might be funny and then you go, 'alright, what else'? So, you kind of throw stuff against the wall and see what happens. But you've got to be prepared to make a fool of yourself.

Always make new mistakes.

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.

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

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

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

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

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.