Quotes About Instinct

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.

as though you have to have him, run. He won't do you any good.

I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.