Unintentional Outcome Quotes

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

A lot of times, the spectacular play the fans see is not always what I tried to do. It just happens.

When I was doing it, I just thought, 'I'm going to do this because it's fun.' I wasn't writing for a publisher or a publishing model; I didn't really think about it, but then, somehow, it worked out in my favor.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started.

Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.

I am not very ambitious by nature, and movies happened to me by chance.