I do not seek, I find

A friend is stuck writing her thesis when, wandering aimlessly through the library, she happens on a carrel where someone had spread out just the article she needed.

Antonio Stradivari, walking in Venice one day, comes upon a pile of broken, waterlogged oars, out of which he makes some of his most beautiful violins.

Mozart hears a starling singing in a street vendor’s cage, and so we have the theme of the last movement of the G-major Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

A lucky find gives Picasso one of his most famous sculptural creations.