I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.
I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.
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.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.
Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
