Jean Dubuffet Quotes

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.