Thomas Cole Quotes

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.

If you don't know what you're passionate about, it's always fun to try new things.

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

I would love to open up my horizons. I love trying new things.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.