Quotes About Exploration

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can't work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work...

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.