Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. ~ Charles Dickens

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing. ~ Jasper Johns

Although the painting is accidental in the beginning, I work toward a design that suggests a subject. ~ Maxine Masterfield

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. ~ Alexander Fleming

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose. ~ Mary Antin

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ~ Elie Wiesel

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. ~ Asger Jorn

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. ~ Bob Ross

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Accidents, try to change them--it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. ~Pablo Picasso

A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. ~ Philip Crosby