A Quote by Owen Jones

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

Owen Jones

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Art Fails Own Struggles Succeeds Successes

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Owen Jones
British - Journalist
Born: August 8, 1984

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

Robert Hughes

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Bruce Jenner

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Jean Cocteau

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.

Jerry Saltz

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

Edward McKendree Bounds

I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made.

Rajneesh

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Aesop

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Thomas Merton

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.