Quotes About Exploration

Every child is born an artist. The trick is remaining one as an adult.

Fostering our children's creativity, we are fostering our children's spirituality as well.

Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.

Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play.

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

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen.

You do not take anyone on this artist date but you and your inner artist, a.k.a. your creative child. That means no lovers, friends, spouses, children—no taggers-on of any stripe.

La creación de algo nuevo no es un logro del intelecto sino el instinto de juego que actúa a partir de una necesidad interior. La mente creativa juega con los objetos que ama». CARL GUSTAV JUNG

terra incognita

The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls—yecchy first paintings, beginning films that look like unedited home movies, first poems that would shame a greeting card.

Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

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

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. AGNES DE MILLE

Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados». JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

What do I need to know?" "What do I need to try?" "What do I need to accept?" "What do I need to do?

Las páginas están concebidas para que nos familiaricemos simplemente con el acto de mover la mano a través del papel y volcar en él todo aquello que te pasa por la cabeza, sea lo que sea. Incluiremos todo, por nimio, tonto, estúpido o raro que pueda parecer.

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.

tu artista es un niño y necesita alimentarse.

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

In fact, I didn't like traveling first class at all. Yes, it was nice to have a bathroom in a hotel and fine service at breakfast...but none of it seemed foreign enough for me. It was all so pleasantly bland that I felt as if I were back on the SS America. I don't like it when everyone speaks perfect English; I'd much rather struggle with my phrasebook.

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

You're really living, not drifting as so many of us do. How I would like to live an adventure, not just act in one! - Georgie, to Cat

Life and reading are not separate activities, When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.