Quotes About Exploration

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

How do I work? I grope.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.