Barry Hannah Quotes

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

It is not merely that Johnny can't read, or even that Johnny can't think. Johnny doesn't know what thinking is, because thinking is so often confused with feeling. … The phrase ‘I feel’ is often used by American students to introduce a conclusion, rather than say ‘I think,’ or ‘I know,’ much less ‘I conclude.’ Unfortunately, ‘I feel’ is often the most accurate term…

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

I'm not someone who calculates things.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.