Instinctive Art Quotes

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

When I am making a film, it's very instinctive, it's not preset.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.