Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

The journey matters as much as the goal.

There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

An artist is an explorer.

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

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.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

I was born to travel and write verse.

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.