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There are no mistakes in art, only unexpected discoveries.
The more I paint, the more I discover myself.
I wanted to discover myself, the reason I was born, and the meaning of life.
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
There are no mistakes in art, only unexpected discoveries.
And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.
And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading. And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one on one either on the telephone or personally with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. In other words, it looks quite academic, all this worldly success.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
There are no mistakes in art, only unexpected discoveries.
Collaboration in mathematics can lead to discoveries that no single mind could achieve alone.
Curiosity is the driving force behind all great mathematical discoveries.
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of creation and discovery simultaneously.
The joy of discovery in mathematics is like solving a puzzle that the universe has left for us.
A mathematician's best work often comes from seeing connections where others see none.
The joy of discovery in mathematics is unparalleled.
The greatest discoveries in mathematics are those that unify seemingly unrelated ideas.