Noel Fielding Quotes

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.

My mind is always free. My mind is flexible.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

You are the smartest lunatic I have ever seen in my whole life.

Please don't be deterred in the fanatic application of your sterile logic.

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep me stimulated - it's a luxury to be able to do lots of different things: style, write, present, DJ or just consult. It can't be any other way; I think I would shrivel up and fall asleep forever.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.

People's minds can change very quickly.

I'm always up for collaborating with people who are slightly leftfield.