Jean Cocteau Quotes

When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

I just follow my instinct.

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

Every major move in my life was done instinctively.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.