Quotes About Flow

When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say what is in your mind; never hesitate a moment.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Perhaps there were a few repetitions here and there. But I would like to confess that I consider nature and human life to be a lovely and charming flow of fleeting repetitions, and I would like further to confess that I regard this phenomenon as a beauty and a blessing.

Success cannot be pursued; success ensues. It flows as the unintended byproduct of efforts concentrated in the direction of a worthy cause.

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life; life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic. —Osho

Balance making it happen with letting it happen.

Si todo parece estar bajo control, significa que vas muy despacio

Top artists work in positive and beautiful and quiet surroundings for an essential reason: it activates "flow state," that stream of brilliance that each of us has available to us if we structure our workspace and set up our private life in a way that allows us to play at the height of our powers.

The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation

I lost track of time when I was in the studio painting. I will get lost in the canvas. It was a real release for me. It was almost as if I transcended time and moved into another dimension.

The days had no shape. They passed, which was good enough.

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

if you don't flush out the pipes, they'll run brown.

I'm all right now," I said, "but leave me alone. I'm going down to the river to bathe." I took seven steps, and then someone must have pulled out the plug, because I gurgled, everything swirled, and the world ran away down the drain.

Another day, in the rain, we're waiting for the boat at the lake; from happiness, this time, the same outburst of annihilation sweeps through me. This is how it happens sometimes, misery or joy engulfs me, without any particular tumult ensuing: nor any pathos: I am dissolved, not dismembered; I fall, I flow, I melt. Such thoughts grazed, touched, tested (the way you test the water with your foot)-can recur. Nothing solemn about them. This is exactly what gentleness is.

A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.

You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.

Water is the driving force in nature.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.