Quotes About Discovery

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Art is an investigation.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.