Quotes About Exploration

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

I'm excited to work with SCARPA because it's opened up a whole new playground to me as an athlete.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.