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Quotes About Intuition

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
~ Al Jourgensen
The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.
~ Paul Lockhart
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.
~ Edgar Alwin Payne
Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.
~ Philipp Otto Runge
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
~ Alan Cooper
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
~ Dan Simmons
I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
~ Erykah Badu
No art comes from the conscious mind.
~ Steve Martin
At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.
~ Doseone
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
~ Franz Grillparzer
When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
~ Pope John Paul II
I don't really see art as structured by logic.
~ Rachel Kushner
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
~ Samuel Johnson
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
~ Pablo Picasso
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.
~ Unknown
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
~ Robert Bresson
Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.
~ Unknown
Art speaks to the soul, not the mind.
~ Unknown