Donald Barthelme Quotes

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

I have fantastic ideas.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

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.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Ideas are the root of creation.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I am not really an inventor. I just steal my ideas from 8-year olds.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

I always got ideas.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

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

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.