“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
All or Nothin, written with Mike Campbell and Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist
"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Context: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...
“Not for nothing have I fallen for "Rekhta" verse,
The darling of my heart was Deccan domicile.”
Wali Mohammed Wali (1667–1707) Indian poet
Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal from the 17th to the 20th Century, p. 18
Poetry, Couplets
“Lost in my mind, clearly lost in oblivion”
E.M.S (1995) Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer
Hidden (2017)
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
As quoted in "Michael Jackson: Elizabeth Taylor Honors her good friend" http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/06/elizabeth-taylor-honors-good-friend-michael-jackson.html by Dave Karger, Entertainment Weekly (26 June 2009)]
Tracey Emin (1963) English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or Young British Artists
Source: Strangeland
“I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat" (August 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 153
General sources