Quotes About Thoughts

meditation isn't about getting rid of thoughts—you'll think forever.

How we regard what arises in meditation is training for how we regard whatever arises in the rest of our lives.

In any case, the point is not to try to get rid of thoughts, but rather to see their true nature. Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

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.

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

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.

I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.