Robert Lepage Quotes

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into your subconscious and see what happens, in a way you just can't when you're writing a novel.

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.