Ernest Hemingway on Mind
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #119147: "Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #33032: "When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."
6 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway on Mind
"Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."
"When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."
"Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so."
"This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it."
"All thinking men are atheists."
"I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish woman, nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that or thought that it could happen."