Quotes About Experimentation

Why Italian? In order to develop another pair of eyes, in order to experiment with weakness

Here is only one rule at the age of eighteen! There are no rules!

Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good I am satisfied.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Sometimes when you are pursuing a goal that you never had before you have to try new things in order to achieve it.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

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

I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.

You have to pretend like you know what you're doing before you know what you're doing.

Sometimes it's not how much light you use to get an effect, it's how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you've got to have courage.

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.