Sidney Poitier Quotes

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

To me, romantic means, um, you follow your heart more than your mind. Sometimes when you're shooting a film, you have to follow your heart.

There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Logic is no answer to passion.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

I believe it's always important to listen to the call of your heart.

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Art does not tolerate reason.

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

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

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

I just go with what excites me.