Quotes About Exploration

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

Making art is a journey.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Science is our century's art.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Art is a journey of discovery.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.