Ideas Quotes
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.
For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.
The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.
My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.
When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.
Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.
I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.
As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.
Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.