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Malcolm Mclaren

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The identity of Malcolm Mclaren may be elusive, but the power of their words is anything but. With equal ease, Malcolm Mclaren moved between Failure and Design, finding connections others missed. 13 of Malcolm Mclaren's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Failure, Design, Attitude, Technology, and Morning. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success."

“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Failure

All Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren

“Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Attitude

“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Failure

“Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Failure

“Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Failure

“What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Failure

“Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Cool

“I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Attitude

“Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Design

“I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.”

— Malcolm Mclaren

Failure