The artist is always
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Ezra Pound
Discovery
That’s always the way
That’s always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you’re crazy. Evelyn E. Smith
Great historians can make
Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all. Evan … Read more
Obsessed by a fairy
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Eugene O’Neill
To open up the
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. Eudora Welty
There is no merit
There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to … Read more
Orphei Drängar possesses a
Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess. Esa-Pekka Salonen
The great revelation of
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then. Erwin Schrodinger
Our understanding of the
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts Ernst Mayr
All artistic discoveries are
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality. Ernst Gombrich