Quotes About Contemplation

I don't hate people, i assume they are dead!

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

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.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Art is about paying attention.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

There is no art without contemplation.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.