gone fishing

"Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch a little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch a big fish, you've got to go deeper.

Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful."

~ David Lynch, from the Introduction of Catching the Big Fish

“Any fish can swim near
the surface, but it takes a great whale to go
downstairs five miles or more.”

~ Herman Melville