Ben Nicholson Quotes

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

When I'm meditating on an idea, I try to let the idea completely saturate me to the point where I feel like I'm covering myself in it or totally immersing myself in it, so that everywhere I'm looking, everywhere I'm going, it's through the lens of that idea. And that's sort of what I do with the music - I try to lose myself in it.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

I have to sit alone in a room and be alone with my own thoughts. It always starts with an idea, and once the idea grows, I have a concept of what I want to say, and once I go out there and start feeling the energy, that concept grows and becomes whatever it is.

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

I sometimes meditate.

I'm a visual person, a conceptual person.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.