Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

Originality is only variation.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Ideas come from everything

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.