#puzzle

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#difficulty #fascination #learning #materials #medium

The human race is like a puzzle: Everyone fits in somewhere, it just takes a while to figure it out ↗

— Jen Leaman

#inspirational #leaman #puzzle #inspirational

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#intelligence #mystery #puzzle #trail #intelligence

A brick could be used as a puzzle. See if you can correctly add up the number of sides. If you keep getting the number seven, try consulting a psychologist—or a numerologist. Incidentally, I just so happen to be the latter, so feel free to give me a call. But don’t feel too free, because my services are most certainly not free.
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— Jarod Kintz

#numerologist #numerology #psychologist #puzzle #brick-and-blanket-uses

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#finish #go #i #jigsaw #jigsaw puzzle

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

#class #computer #computer program #doing #front

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration. ↗

— Anna Sui

#books #designer #great #had #i

(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Chris Dee

#love #love-is #puzzle #rules #rules-of-life

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all... ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#mystery #puzzle #puzzles #solution #solve

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#artists #complexity #friendship #music #musicians