Marion Milner Quotes

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it. It's like there's a spirit, or intuitive network, that comes through all of us, but most people don't take the time to think about it or remember it. These little things pop into our heads - it's just a process of intuition. The initial thought comes in a baby state, and you work on that some more.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.