Jean Cocteau understood thiswell, hence his mantra “Find first, seek later.” Thus heuristics was originally an interpretive activity, aimed at making someimplicit possibilities (often hidden by a mystifying appearance)explicit. One might define an inventor as a person who, asViktor Shklovsky said, “is able to detach the object from theusual associations.”
quote from the book ‘why archıtects still draw’
acts of drawing 