[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.
I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.
I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
