John Forbes Nash Jr. Quotes

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

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

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

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.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

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

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

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

I'm drawn to dreams.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

I had a dream that she put her foot through my belly button and I was playing this little piggy went to the market just with her toes, just her foot was sticking out of my belly button and it was completely normal!

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

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

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 have absurdly vivid dreams.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.