Ideas Quotes - Page 5

• Ideas are bulletproof.

  Alan Moore

  Change, Bulletproof

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• The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Chiaroscuro, Harbors, Profundity

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

  Sara Genn

  Obvious, Bubbles

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• Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

  Egon Friedell

  Movement, Loses

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• It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Done, Crowds

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

  Victor Hugo

  Heroism, Madness, Ends

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.205, Dawson Bros.

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• Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

  David Batchelor

  Way, Certain, Materials

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• Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Two, Needs, Moments

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• We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, Small Jobs, Different Jobs

  "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". PBS Documentary, 1996.

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• To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Flying

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• The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Useless, Form

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• Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Hands, Tasks

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

  Paolo Giordano

  Moving, Games, Needs

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• Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Son, Heaven

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• Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

  Lawren Harris

  Finals, Sometimes, Process

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• The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Moving, Feelings

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Plato, Building Houses, Credit

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

  Keith Crown

  Order, Two, Together

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• Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

  Seth Godin

  Acceptance, Rejection, Adoption

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• Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

  Ken Robinson

  Learning, Creativity, Process

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Doe, Problem, Multiple

  "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto" by Johnny Minkley, www.eurogamer.net. March 31, 2010.

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• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sarcastic, War, Sarcasm

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• Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Unlikely, Produce

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• I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

  Lucian Freud

  Doctors, Use, Looks

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• Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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