Quotes About Exploration

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.

I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.