Quotes about Discovery

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.

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.

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

I think maybe the vehicle for me was 'Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits.' It has a song called, 'Touch the Hem of His Garment.' Do you know that song? I kind of got obsessed with that song and started exploring and getting more of his old recordings with the Soul Stirrers and really getting into that super, super deeply.

Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.