Quotes About Experimentation

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Science is our century's art.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

Science is the art of the solvable.

Learn not only the rules of art, but 'when' and 'how' to break them.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."