Anne Jackson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

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