Quotes by Mind Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. Agatha Christie soul mind attitude I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind. Agatha Christie harmony mind long In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws. Agatha Christie flaws mind writing Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. Agatha Christie self mind men Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods. Agatha Christie taken mind sweet The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding. Agathon understanding mind heart The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts. Agnes Baker Pilgrim distance mind heart Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes. Agnes Denes keys mind numbers My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. Agnes Martin perception mind forever When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision. Agnes Martin mind tree thinking To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. Agnes Martin progress giving-up mind Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. Agnes Martin mystery eye mind Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not. Agnes Martin realizing inspiration mind When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work. Agnes Martin covered mind looks I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind. Agnes Martin artist feet mind I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable. Agnes Martin perfect mind thinking I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are. Agnes Martin perfect mind art You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting. Agnes Martin perfect mind art The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind. Agnes Repplier humor essence mind When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador. Agnes Repplier mind desire travel «4567891011121314»