Quotes About Experimentation

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

How do I work? I grope.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

I love trying new things but, of course, love sticking to the classic makeup looks.