Quotes About Thought

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

I'm working in my mind.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

linear brains can't curve a thought.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

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

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her forever.

And it ain't a man, thought Slank.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. —Bill Raeder

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is