Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Genius is initiative on fire.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

True play is creativity.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.