Edward Burtynsky Quotes

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I just follow my heart.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know rather than what I do know.

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

I'm a very instinctive person. If my heart feels I should do something, I go for it.

My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

I didn't think; I experimented.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.