Quotes About Open-mindedness

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

I do not believe in age," he said with determination. "It is a very small idea. Like a small box. That box is too small for you. You have no limits, you are free.