Quotes About Intuition

Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you'll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them. You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.

Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.

It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.

Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

When one is painting one does not think.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is 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.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

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

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.