Steven Spielberg, in commencement speech at Harvard, says he hears voices: the loud voice of his conscience and the whisper of his intuition.

Quoted in today’s New York Times:

“And I want to be clear that your intuition is different from your conscience. They work in tandem, but here’s the distinction: Your conscience shouts, ‘Here’s what you should do,’ while your intuition whispers, ‘Here’s what you could do.’ Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that.”

People who do not hear voices assume that such talk is only a metaphor. But in this blog, when artists say they hear voices, they are taken at their word.

Search “voice” and “voices” in this blog for discussions of this recurrent issue.