Quotes About Curiosity

Art is an investigation.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

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

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

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.

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

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

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

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.