“A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
“Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible landscapes of the twelve-tone scale, just as not all of us strive for inaccessible mountain-tops, or glory in storms at sea. But the human incidence is there. Could it be that these two impractical pursuits - of beauty and of adventure’s embrace - are simply two differing profiles of the same uniquely human reality?”
— Robert Ardrey, book The Hunting Hypothesis
The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man (1976)
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