Quotes About Search

Art = a mad search for individualism.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling lik

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.

check DMV records, she thought with a sinking feeling. It was the most

He didn't know it, but he had saved her, and hopefully he would never know the dire straits she'd been in when he met her. She had come to the Napa Valley to find a man like him. She had set her sights on Sam Marshall, but

Mr. Crepsley What are you doing? Darren Looking for fangs. Mr. Crepsley We do not grow fangs, you ass!

No one could work harder to be happy, Tocqueville observes of Americans, marveling at the ceaseless, restless energy they expand in search of a better life. Rushing from one thing tho the next, an American will travel hundreds of miles in a day. He will build a house in which to pass his old age and then sell it before the roof is on. He will continually change paths for fear of missing the shortest cut leading to happiness.

Why was he alive on Earth? Very often the meaning was obscured. Very often it required some digging. The meaning of his life was an elusive stream of water hundreds of feet below the surface, and he would periodically drop a bucket down the well, fill it, bring it up and drink from it. But this did not sustain him for long.

Il significato della sua vita era un'inafferrabile vena d'acqua centinaia di metri sotto la superficie, e periodicamente lui calava un secchio nel pozzo, lo riempiva, lo tirava su e beveva. Ma questo non lo sosteneva molto a lungo.

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

Just like a computer, your brain has a search function—but it's even more phenomenal than a computer's. It seems to be programmed by what we focus on and, more primarily, what we identify with.

The guard thought about this for a few moments. "When they first brought him here we did the standard strip search, no orifice overlooked.