Quotes About Intuition

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just go with it. It's much easier to let the Muse drive than for me to try to steer.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.

I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.

If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and a little beyond the outworks of our intuitions, perhaps we should then bear our sadnessess with greater assurance than our joys.

Always trust yourself. If it turns out you are wrong, then that natural course of your inner life will lead you to other insights.

Aber das Wehende höre, die ununterbrochene Nachricht, die aus Stille sich bildet.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart....

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Nature hates calculators.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.