Quotes About Spontaneity

But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.

Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes' argument "I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

Never work with kids or animals.

I like to work spontaneously.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

I just post what I want to, it's as simple there's no strategy or trying to send out a message in any way.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.