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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
Tags: you, failure, morning, art

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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
— Malcolm Mclaren
Tags: mother, me, art, myself
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
— Malcolm Mclaren
Tags: know, feel, think, drive
I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
— Malcolm Mclaren
Tags: pistols, sex-pistols, successful, never, sex
The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
— Malcolm Mclaren
Tags: canvas, like, art, work
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
— Malcolm Mclaren
Tags: stealing, things, world, art
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