Quotes About Exploration

Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

You are offered the potential of opening up into the as-yet unknown, the much bigger world where there are smells you've never smelled, there are sights you've never seen, and there are sounds you've never heard. What you could experience is so much vaster than what you currently experience. Let's go in that direction. TS:

The point is that you begin where you are, you see what a child you are, and you don't criticize that. You begin to explore, with a lot of humor and generosity toward yourself, all the places where you cling, and every time you cling, you realize, "Ah!

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether has to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Consider everything an experiment.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.