Came across an excerpt of author Rebecca Solnit's book "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" and was intrigued enough by the theme of the book to order a copy. Her book about photographer Edward Muybridge, River of Shadows, was excellent and I'll look forward to her musings on creativity:
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Three years ago I was giving a workshop in the Rockies. A student came in bearing a quote from what she said was the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno. It read, “How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” I copied it down, and it has stayed with me since.
[thanks, Brain Pickings]
