Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

I do not seek. I find.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.