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The mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and where they have hitherto woven ignorance and pain they may now weave enlightenment and happiness. (James Allen)
When you look and see, you don't think. (Aristotle)
The soul never thinks without a picture. (Aristotle)
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. (Matthew Arnold)
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. (Matthew Arnold)
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How do I know what I think until I hear what I say? (Tallulah Bankhead)
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what "should" be in it or how it "should" be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume. (Darby Bannard)
Too much thinking can tire the mind. The trick is to learn when to stop thinking and to begin work. (Moncy Barbour)
There is simply too much to think about. (Saul Bellow)
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. (Henri Bergson)
How can you think and hit at the same time? (Yogi Berra)
-The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
brain, n. An apparatus with which we think we think. (Ambrose Bierce)
Painting is a lot about thinking. (Linda Blondheim)
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. (Boethius)
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. (Niels Bohr)
I have never solved a major mechanical or interpretive problem at the keyboard. I have always solved it in my mind. (Jorge Bolet)
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand. (Alain de Botton)
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things. (Ray Bradbury)
I am mentally bifocal. (Pearl S. Buck)
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we create the world. (Buddha)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Samuel Butler)
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. (Carlos Castaneda)
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. (Marc Chagall)
The more you reason, the less you create. (Raymond Chandler)
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I sometimes think we undo ourselves by thinking we must do better. It seems to invalidate what we have already done. (Anne Copeland)
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. (Benedetto Croce)
To think is to differ. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation. (Charles Darwin)
Contrary to the modernist dogma, painting is a brainy activity. Thinking, in my view, is always welcome at the easel. (Paul deMarrais)
I think therefore I am. (Rene Descartes)
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. (John Dewey)
Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality. (Avtarjeet Dhanjal)
Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think. (Dionysius)
Negative thinking shuts us in a prison, but there is a way out... You renew your mind when you change your habit of thinking. (Dr. Jay Dishman)
Don't believe everything you Think. (Faith Duck)
Strain your brain more than your eye. (Thomas Eakins)
Five percent of the people think; 10 percent of the people think they think; and the other 85 percent would rather die than think. (Thomas Edison)
The mind paints before the brush. (James Ellis)
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. (Rudolf Flesch)
Thinking is drawing in your head. (Alan Fletcher)
The more you think, the more time you have. (Henry Ford)
How can I know what I think till I see what I say? (E. M. Forster)
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. (Buckminster Fuller)
Those who know how to think need no teachers. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making – it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking. (Malcolm Gladwell)
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking. (Samuel Goldwyn)
Thinking is a very bad thing to do in my studio. Smelling, breathing, giggling, dancing, those are allowed. (Sheila Grabarsky)
Go to sleep thinking about what you're going to do first thing tomorrow. (Irwin Greenberg)
You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink. (J. B. S. Haldane)
Paint what you see - not what you think you see! (Andrew Hamilton)
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while. (Charles Hawthorne)
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. (Robert Anson Heinlein)
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion – in the long run, these are the only people who count. (Robert Anson Heinlein)
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. (Robert Henri)
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. (Robert Henri)
A moment's thinking is an hour in words. (Thomas Hood)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices. (William James)
Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain – particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical. (Brian Johnson)
The mind's job is to validate what it thinks. (Byron Katie)
The paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. (Soren Kierkegaard)
I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. (Stephen King)
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Nature gave men two ends – one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. (George R. Kirkpatrick)
We cannot unthink unless we are insane. (Arthur Koestler)
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
-Generous Wisdom: Commentaries by H.H. the Dalai Lama XIV on the Jatakamala
In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed... (Dalai Lama)
Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow. (Loral Langemeier)
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. (Walter Lippmann)
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you. (Don Marquis)
No brain is stronger than its weakest think. (Thomas L. Masson)
The scribble, the sketch, and the study are helpful as preparatory drawing techniques, and for thinking on paper. (Richard McDaniel)
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. (Michelangelo)
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. (John Stuart Mill)
Think before you do, so that what you did is not best undone. (Kenneth Moore)
The heart must do its work undisturbed by reflective consciousness. (Karl Nierendorf)
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Indeed, creative thinking does not have to be new thinking. (Ben Novak)
Our heads are round so that our thinking can change directions. (Francis Picabia)
I paint things as I think of them, not as I see them. (Pablo Picasso)
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. (Plato)
Artists must be thinkers. (Todd Plough)
They never taste who always drink; / They always talk who never think. (Matthew Prior)
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill the gap. (Marcel Proust)
Even when you think you're not thinking, you are thinking. (Scott Pynn)
Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. (Martin Ritt)
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. (Sugar Ray Robinson)
Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. (Theodore Rubin)
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. (Rumi)
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. (Bertrand Russell)
Art is not what you think, but what you think is art. (Ralph Santullo)
People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves. (May Sarton)
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Whatever I think of, I dismember. (Jack Shadbolt)
If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think. (Ben Shahn)
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. (George Bernard Shaw)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. (King Solomon)
When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience. (Grace Speare)
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking. (Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout)
Thinking implies disagreement, and disagreement implies nonconformity, and nonconformity implies heresy, and heresy implies disloyalty – so obviously, thinking must be stopped. (Adlai Stevenson)
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain. (Henry David Thoreau)
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. (Alvin Toffler)
Think continually about what you want, not about the things you fear. (Brian Tracy)
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. (Donald Trump)
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. (Mao Tse-Tung)
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. (Mark Twain)
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. (Lao Tzu)
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. (Brenda Ueland)
I don't do wristy paintings because I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark. (Euan Uglow)
Life's battles don't always go / To the strongest or fastest man; / But sooner or later the man who wins / Is the man who thinks he can! (unknown)
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. (Voltaire)
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. (Thomas J. Watson, Sr.)
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Alfred North Whitehead)
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. (Oscar Wilde)
Art is idea. It is not enough to draw, paint, and sculpt. An artist should be able to think. (Gurdon Woods)
We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much... We just behave in a natural way. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed. (Milford Zornes)
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