Gotye Quotes

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

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

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

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.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

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 I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

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 love dreaming!

Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

Sometimes I see patterns in my mind. I dream about them at night. They drive me crazy.

Whenever I work on a role, I always allow it to subconsciously take me to a place that is magical and unexpected, rather than consciously driving it to a place.

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