The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
~ Anthony Kiedis
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
~ Patti Smith
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
~ Agnes Martin
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
~ Norman Lindsay
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
~ Henry Miller
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
~ Henry Ossawa Tanner
I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.
~ Glenn Turner
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
~ George Bernard Shaw
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
~ Edward Kennedy
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
~ Rahul Gandhi
I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.
~ Joaquim Barbosa
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.
~ Nate Mendel
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~ Mencius
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~ Unknown
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
~ George Santayana
When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is 'iron brother.' To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as 'Iron Pak.' This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship.
~ Li Keqiang
I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
~ Jesse Ball
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
~ Emma Goldman
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
~ Madeline Kahn
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
~ Ellie Goulding
Everything comes from your mind. You have to push yourself to get things going in your direction. If you are stubborn, nothing will help. If you are sad, nothing will help. You have to keep positive and to work very well for your next chance.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
~ Shirley Temple
It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
~ Robert Redford
I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!
~ Penny Marshall
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
~ John Perry Barlow
I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
~ Toni Braxton
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
~ Harry S Truman
I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
~ Pink
I don't mind dating younger men now.
~ Jackee Harry
I wouldn't mind telling my five good friends that I'm dating, but I don't want my loose connections to know.
~ Sunil Nagaraj
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
~ Robert Collier
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
~ Marlon Brando
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
~ Richard M. Devos
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.
~ Afrika Bambaataa
One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
