Quotes About Mind

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

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.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

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

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

Sleep is no mean art.

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.