Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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'.
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.