Werner Herzog Quotes

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Religion can thrive only in a personal universe.

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.

It's all about sensitivity. If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life.

To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.

I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.

Close your eyes, all you see is yours.

I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.

Our heart always transcends us.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.