Jeremy Scott Quotes

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

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

You can't rush inspiration.

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

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

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

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

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.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that feels fun and fresh to me tends to happen fairly unthinkingly.

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

If I'm going to draw something, I don't know the day before what I'm going to draw. It's just very much an interpretation of how I'm feeling that day and what I think is the coolest thing in my brain at that very moment.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

One writes not by will but by surrender.

I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.