Patrick Cox Quotes

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

I'm interested in everything. If I had enough time on this earth, I'd like to learn every art practice.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.

Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

I'm inspired by everything, really. I'm inspired by locations and travel, I'm inspired by art and music, I'm inspired by people. When my curiosity peaks and I want to know everything about the subject, I want to know how I can get more deeply involved.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

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.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

I like to discover new things.