Quotes About Experimentation

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I'm not a cook and I always stick everything in the freezer and then I leave things out, saying 'if it's good today it will be good tomorrow.'

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

I think if anyone looks at the history of So Solid, you'll see that we've never stuck to one sound. We've always created from other genres, from R&B, hip-hop, bashment, jungle.