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My work comes directly from my inner consciousness, and it must come easily. (Gertrude Abercrombie)
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. (Alan Alda)
To think intuitively is to think in duration... Intuition, bound up to a duration which is growth, perceives in it an uninterrupted continuity of unforeseeable novelty; it sees, it knows that the mind draws from itself more than it has, that spirituality consists in just that, and that reality, impregnated with spirit, is creation. (Henri Bergson)
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. (Henri Bergson)
Develop your Intuition so that the changes in the years to come may be convenient for you. (Yogi Bhajan)
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. (Ray Bradbury)
'Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically. (Georges Braque)
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)
I don't understand my intuitive side, but it understands me all too well and knows just when to kick in. I nourish its well-earned independence and perception. (Harley Brown)
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. (Alexis Carrel)
I'm not interested in your knowledge, I'm interested in your intuition - that's where genius resides. (Alvaro Castagnet)
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)
The painting leads the painter, and it becomes an intuitive experience. (Ardath Davis)
The destruction of intuition and sensory response occurs when I burp conjecture and lose my way by fault of intellect. (Gins V.O. Doolittle)
All his decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis... (Marcel Duchamp)
I believe in intuition and inspiration... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. (Albert Einstein)
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. (Albert Einstein)
I believe I rely heavily on intuition and depend on an intuitive response from my audience. I am a great believer in intuition, for men and women alike. (Jane Freilicher)
Call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. (Buckminster Fuller)
The formula must come after the discovery... the description after the fact. Once we intuitively know what it is, then we can talk about it. (Ron Gang)
Design is a combination of intelligence and intuition. (Richard Glasser)
My work uses color and shape to evoke images that are recalled by the viewer intuitively. (Lois Gruberger)
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. (Immanuel Kant)
The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery... Therefore, we must hearken closely to our inner voice. (Oskar Kokoschka)
Intuition is the only true guide in life. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. (John Kord Lagemann)
If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth. (Nita Leland)
Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me? (Lauren Mackler)
Many of us are intuitive and don't plan our paintings, but discover them. (H Margret)
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. (Henri Matisse)
Intellect confuses intuition. (Piet Mondrian)
Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions, even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation. (Robert Moss)
Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment. (Caroline Myss)
Memory and intention (which postulate past and future) and intuition (which indicates the eternal present) are fused. The iron is always hot. (Stephen Nachmanovitch)
Intuitive artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum... (Elle Nicolai)
The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another. (Robert Ornstein)
Logic and intellect can take an artist to the dance, but intuition and creativity are the dance itself. (Gregory Packard)
What an artist makes of painting is not so much a matter of freely choosing among a variety of options as it is a matter of making the most of a few intuitions that are absolutely one's own. Every time a painter paints we want to see what those intuitions are. (Jed Perl)
Intuition is a tool essential in my life. (Philippe Petit)
I try to begin a painting with as few restrictions as possible and let intuition be my guide, as I respond to what is developing on the painting surface. (Marilyn Hughey Phillis)
The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine. (Henri Poincare)
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always. (Katherine Anne Porter)
The intuitive ideas are not always the right ones... But at the crossroads of intuition and planning, I'm likely to follow intuition. (Peter Prest)
- interview with Shirley Kaneda, 1994...
If it were intuition gone wild, it could be a nightmare. On the other hand, a purely analytical approach might be deadly dry. If such a thing could possibly exist. I mean, there's always a point where it has to have a form or presence and therefore invention of some kind, so in that sense intuitive decisions take place even in the driest part of the work. (Fiona Rae)
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition. (Rumi)
I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling. (Robert Ryan)
Acting on intuition can sometimes produce inspired creativity. (Ian Semple)
The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition. (Ben Shahn)
If you let your intuitive self take hold in the beginning of a work, a very beautiful 'happening' might emerge. You can then use your intellectual self to refine where necessary. (Barbara L. Siegal)
It isn't until we make that 'intuitive' connection in our brains that real learning takes place. (Mary Timme)
Objective thinking – the scientific method – is not the only path to knowledge We can't explain it – yet intuition is the place within us that knows, beyond doubt, beyond rational thinking. (Michael Toms)
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. (Lao Tzu)
Take command, live in each moment while you are painting and trust your intuition. You will create beauty, but learn the fundamentals firsthand. (Esther J. Williams)
In order to create, you've got to eliminate thinking, then focus and listen to your internal voice. (Elizabeth Winter-Noyes)
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