“I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.” WritingBodyArtistGuyStuffWatchesTypeSceneNoiseUnconsciousOnlineMartial ArtsYoutubeChokeOther GuysMartial Artist Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.” DesireArtistBearsTransformationUnconsciousRootedTrue Artists Book:To the director and playwright Source: To the director and playwright
“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.” IfsArtEndsRealityArtistDegreesOddAssumptionUnconsciousContradictionConversesDichotomyLayman Author:Robert Motherwell
“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?” SpiritualArtistForceHeavenWalksVisionDivineGeniusConsciousEarsPaintChosenPainterVanityLandscapeUnconsciousUrgesAngleReal BeautyEmulation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.” ArtistImagineFoolUnconsciousCollaborationPrimitiveRobinson Crusoe Author:William Baziotes
“Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.” RealArtistChoicesConsciousMaturityUnconsciousReal Artists Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.” ArtistGoldMythTreasureUnconsciousAutobiographyDrossGreatest Treasure Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.” WayArtistCreativeStrangePursueMysteriousInnocenceUnconsciousMysterious Ways Author:Dorothy L. Sayers