Quotes About Thought

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

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.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

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

I paint what I think, not what I see.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

The idea is more important than the object.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.