Quotes About Exploration

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

You could say science also is an art.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.