Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

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

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I don't know what idea is going to hit me when.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

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

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.