Quotes About Discovery

Trying to get lasting security teaches us a lot, because if we never try to do it, we never notice that it can't be done. Turning our minds toward the dharma speeds up the process of discovery. At every turn we realize once again that it's completely hopeless—we can't get any ground under our feet. The difference between theism

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

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

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Consider everything an experiment.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.