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Unknown

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the
unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources
on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.
- Frank X Barron

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard

There is no known device for artistic contraception.
- Daniel Joseph Boorstin

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
- Georges Braque

In Art there is only one thing that counts; the thing you can't explain.
- Georges Braque

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The
moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows.
We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
- Agnes de Mille

The sole purpose of the arts is neither description nor imitation, but
the creation of unknown beings from elements which are always present
but not apparent.
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon

A truly alive person seeks the unknown. You have to get free from inhibitions
- all the forbiddens - before you can create. An artist has to let go of old rules.
- Gary Fey

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything,
never heard anything... and then make something.
- Keith Haring

You can count how many seeds are in the apple,
but not how many apples are in the seed.
- Ken Kesey

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown,
since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
- Rene Magritte

Making your unknown known is the important thing.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and
making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
- Gilda Radner

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to
her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms,
which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not
understand or suspect.
- Auguste Rodin

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
- Rumi

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