The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

Geoff Dyer
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  2. I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller

  3. All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions - Leonardo Da Vinci

  4. What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. - Deepak Chopra

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More Quotes By Geoff Dyer
  1. Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

  2. Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than...

  3. People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you...

  4. The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

  5. My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into...

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