Quotes About Discovery

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

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

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

Making art is a journey.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Science is our century's art.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

Art is a journey of discovery.

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.