Quotes About Exploration

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

Think inside the work - outside the work

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.