Jon Hopkins Quotes

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.