Quotes About Exploration

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

Art is an investigation.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.