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“When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happe...”
“I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.”
“Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those in...”
“I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analyti...”
“Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.”
“Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.”
“Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.”
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.”
“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”
“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”
“There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the las...”
“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”
“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”
“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'.”
“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”
“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.”
“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 in...”
“Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.”
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
“I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.”
