Quotes About Discovery

Mulling on the page is an artless art form. It is fooling around. It is doodling. It is the way that ideas slowly take shape and form until they are ready to help us see the light. All too often, we try to push, pull, outline, and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ANDRÉ GIDE

The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product. Don't try to write something perfect; just write. Don't try to write the whole megillah; just start the whole megillah.

terra incognita

Each painting has its own way of evolving. . . . When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. WILLIAM BAZIOTES

concéntrate más en la búsqueda del misterio que en los conocimientos que te faltan.

En consecuencia puede que ni siquiera sepan que son artistas.

A mystery can be very simple: if I drive this road, not my usual road, what will I see? Changing a known route throws us into the now. We become refocused on the visible, visual world. Sight leads to insight.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI

Se medita para descubrir la propia identidad, el verdadero lugar que ocupamos en el universo

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved the people, the food, the lay of the land, the civilized atmosphere, and the generous pace of life.

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

tender escargots bobbing in garlicky butter were one of my happiest discoveries!

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Oh, my dear, love isn't always the coup de foudre --the lightning strike. Sometimes it happens quietly, so quietly you may not even notice.

Oh, my dear, love isn't always the coup de foudre --the lightning strike. Sometimes it happens quietly, so quitely you may not even notice.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn't matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...

And by that time he had made the most terrifying discovery of his life, one which probably cast a shadow over all his subsequent relationships: the realization that most love, even the most ardent and the most sincere, can, given the correct assault, curdle into a mixture of pity and anger.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn't open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you've looked. That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to know everything and those who don't. This search is a sign of love I maintain.