Jim Henson Quotes

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

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.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

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.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

I think it's better to have ideas.

It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.