Quote: Norman Maclean

“All there is to thinking,” he said, “is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren’t noticing which makes you see something that isn’t even visible.“

Spoken by one or the other of the brothers in Maclean’s quiet character study, A River Runs Through It (the book, not the movie). It’s hard to give a better explanation of the process, no? You start somewhere you know. You bridge from there to something you’re less sure of. Pretty soon you’re working with something totally novel. This is understood in science, logic, art—it’s a constant in the gray matter processes of human beings.