Quotes About Experimentation

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

The key is to be quick and dirty—exploring a range of ideas without becoming too invested in only one.

We didn't know as children that we were creative. We just knew that it was okay for us to try experiments that sometimes succeeded and sometimes falied. That we could keep creating, keep tinkering, and trust that something interesting would result if we just stuck with it

The most skillful teachers know how to tolerate the ambiguity of experimentation. They also know when to step back and pretend they're invisible. That's why, whenever I observe in a classroom, I like to measure the ratio of "teacher talk" to "student talk." When the ratio tips toward the students, it often means kids are testing their critical thinking skills. A noisier classroom is much harder to manage, but often more productive.

Song-forms are just like jello molds, ya know? I like goofing around. [ Pour some flavor in there? ] Yeah; and wait for it to sit.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Let us try for once not to be right

Those were the days when the three of them were smoking their first pipes, growing their first moustaches, having their first drunks and going with their first women, glorying in their release from meaningless discipline, in the prospect of earthly pleasures and an independent existence.

Oulipo does not "explain" poetry, Ouilpo tries to find constraints for new kinds of poems. Oulipo is not into theory, it is a place of creation.

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ?

A headline-grabbing 2005 British study revealed that girls aged six to twelve enjoyed torturing, mutilating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they liked dressing them up for the prom. What

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)