Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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

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.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

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

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

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

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

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.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

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

I'm interested in creating new work.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

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

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 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.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.