Quotes About Exploration

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it.

There is life after retirement, and it is BETTER.

What's a pirate minus the ship? Just a creative homeless guy.

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-?i pierzi min?ile.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-?i pierzi min?ile.

If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you've never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you're going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important. I

I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they're repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.

Travelling makes a person young because he doesn't get time to get old.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

When I think about my life, the early works, you know, always you learn as a young artist to have a style you can follow, a certain line. But I didn't do that. I had this enormous urge to make different works. And some of them, I didn't see any kind of connection. I didn't know where I'm going. But now, looking 45 years back, everything had perfect sense. It's like a straight line.

I've never really had a studio. A studio makes you lazy and comfortable, and you repeat yourself.

I expose myself to life, and from that, ideas come as a surprise. I totally dismiss the ones that are pleasant and easy. I'm only interested in the ones that really disturb me and that I get obsessed about. They're what bring me to new territory.

If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you've never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you're going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important.

I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

For it's only when you reach your destination that you discover the road doesn't end here after all.

Sobretudo, ele gostava do mar. Mergulhava, boiava, velejava, navegava, saltava, nadava, deixava-se submergir. Desenhava-o, pintava-o, estudava-lhe correntes, profundidades, marés, faunas e floras. Fazia praia e a praia fazia-se aos que queriam segui-lo. Outubro ia avançado e a corte em Cascais, e D. Carlos com a mão pousada na amurada do veleiro, cabeça muito redonda virada ao vento norte. Quem lhe dera que a política fosse assim gélida e frontal.

Quien solo ve en el mar su superficie, se está perdiendo los secretos y las posibilidades que encierran sus profundidades. Quien solo ve el mundo de lo material, de lo que tiene forma, se pierde el fondo, el mundo de los espiritual y que encierra en sí todas las infinitas formas.

Prefiero que mi mente se abra movida por la curiosidad a que se cierre movida por la convicción. GERRY SPENCE

Para convertirse en un observador de sí mismo, de los demás y del mundo hay que tener una mentalidad de principiante, de alguien que reconoce que no sabe y que quiere saber. Y esto no es posible sin el interés que despierta la curiosidad.

El plan trazado es la absoluta libertad. Conocernos y ver que pasa, dejar que corra el tiempo y revisar. No hay trabas. No hay compromisos

El plan trazado es la absoluta libertad. Conocernos y ver qué pasa, dejar que corra el tiempo y revisar. No hay trabas.

De pormenor en pormenor vamos descubriendo el exterior y la intimidad, digamos el milímetro de universo que nos tocó en suerte. Y sólo entonces, cuando encontramos al muchacho o al vejestorio que lleva nuestro nombre, sólo entonces los pormenores suelen convertirse en pormayores.