Quotes on art and intuition

 I am crazy about good, thought provoking quotes. What could be better than some good, thought provoking quotes about art??!! I am a real believer in the fact that we do not give enough credit to, or trust our intuition enough. All I know is that since I have been able to let go and trust my instincts again, my work has never been better (and more fun to produce). I have collected a bit of inspiration for art and life. Enjoy

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. 

-Alan Alda
 

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. 

-Dr. Joyce Brothers

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

-Alexis Carrel

Visuals = the language of intuition.
-Eileen M.Clegg

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

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 Kokoschaka

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.

-John Kord Lagemann

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

-Henri Matisse

Intellect confuses intuition.

-Piet Mondrian

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

Intuitive artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum...

-Elle Nocolai

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

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

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

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 Tomas

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. 

-Lao Tzu

In order to create, you've got to eliminate thinking, then focus and listen to your internal voice.

-Elizabeth Winter-Noyes