(from: http://www.journalventilo.fr/2011/09/14/collection-planque-l%E2%80%99exemple-de-cezanne-au-musee-granet/)
Yesterday I bought two secondhand books, "Essays in science and philosophy"(by Whitehead) and "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenace"(by Robert Prirsig), costing 17.5 pounds.
This morning reading some pages of Whitehead I met fascinating sentences like below:
"Of course anybody who has any sense who writes on philosophy knows, or ought to know, that the world is unfathomable in its complexity and that anything you put together must be open to criticism - ought to be open to criticism if it is any good at all. It should be a platform from which it is worth while to make criticisms. That is, to be reasonably successful as a philosopher is to provide a new platform; perhaps not a completely new platform, but a slight alteration of some older platfom from which it is worth while to make criticisms. And criticism is the motive power for the advance of thought. I am fond of pointing out to my pupils that to be refuted in every century after you have written is the acme of triumph. I always make that remark in connection with Zeno. No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him, and every century thinks it worth while to refute him"
I have heard similar advice from Jean Duffet, an artist while I was travelling around Cezanne in Aix Provence. And I think I know what it needs. Patience and courage. No more words needed.