Ray Bradbury Quotes

I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Get creative with your friends and just make stuff because you never know where it can end up.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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.

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

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

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

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

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

You can't rush inspiration.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

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

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.