Quotes About Discovery

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

Science is the art of the solvable.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

Without a doubt, I must read, all the booksI've read about.See the artworkshung on hooks, that I have only, seen in books.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.