Unconscious Insight Quotes

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

When I dance, I go to a different side of who I am. I feel like I can solve a problem without knowing I'm solving one.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places.

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.