Raymond Loewy Quotes

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 would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

I usually just have ideas when I have them.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

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

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

You can't rush inspiration.

If you do come up with a new idea, in 4 seconds it will belong to somebody else.

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.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.