“All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.” Sidney Lumet’s words remind us that creativity often blooms in the unexpected. These reflections celebrate happy mishaps, chance discoveries, and the courage to welcome accidents as part of the art of living. ✨

Everything good that happened to me happened by accident. ~ Jack Benny, Sunday Nights at Seven

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. ~ Rahael Soyer

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. ~ Stephen De Staebler

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. ~ Emil Nolde

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power. ~ Jean Baudrillard

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. ~ Sidney Lumet

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. ~ Francis Bacon

You need accidents, otherwise it is fake. ~ Sotirios Kotoulas

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment. ~ Ralph Steadman

I don't use the accident. I deny the accident. ~ Jackson Pollock

We never learned how to solve problems, create effects, get concrete results. So we hope for, and rely on fortuitous accidents. What we do by accident we call creative. ~ Brian Knowles

The odds of you being born is one in 400 trillion. You are not here by accident. ~ Simon Alexander Ong