Quotes
Quotes about Mind
A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.
A full mind is an empty bat.
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
