“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.” IfsWayDoeEyeChoicesUnderstandingFailingSubjectsMankindCreationPaintingPoetEarsSatisfactionWidePainter Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.” HardHandsEyeCertainFallForgetBehindsPracticeSuccessfulFailingMastersDegreesDenyDrawingPainterHis EyesFacility Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.” SeemsFailingStrangerPainterIntimacySettlingButtonsUnfamiliarArrivingSettling Down Author:Augustus John
“The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.” ArtFoundProgressFailingPerfectionMethodSimplicityTechniqueReputationPainterCharm Author:Honore de Balzac
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.” IfsWayYoungArtistFallActorsChallengesToo MuchFailingSucceedNotionCreatorPainterDecentLockedSuccess And FailureUnhealthyYoung ActorsCommunicatorsChallenge Yourself Author:Emma Thompson
“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.” PeopleIfsLooksMistakeFailingBandStartingHorriblePainterIdiotNonprofitsHorrible Mistakes Author:Kathleen Hanna
“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.” IfsWellsPersonsAbleAnimalPracticeStudyFailingOne ThingFiguresObjectsParticularGeniusHonorPainterLandscapeBranchesAcademy Author:Leonardo da Vinci