Eduardo Chillida Quotes

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I always do something that I've never done before.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I like to be out of my depth - that's when I learn the most.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

I've been lucky enough to do a lot of very interesting things, and every time, I've been like, 'I want to put everything into this because I want to see how far I can go with it.'

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.

I am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.