Quotes About Experimentation

Art originates in experiment

I am the only guinea pig I have.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

for centuries new experiments have been made and adjustments carried out.

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

I am very impulsive when it comes to experimenting with my looks and love playing with ideas by involving people from all walks of life.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.

You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song.

With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to find what the architecture is of the sound.

I do like trying bold things such as styling, even usually.

All kinds of things have gone into my shows - cajun and rock bands, Bollywood, Kraftwerk tributes, effects and so on. As long as it services the comedy, everything is up for grabs.

Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.

I try to challenge my ears. I get bored easily.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

All my favorite bands are the ones that push the limits and boundaries.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.

Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.