Dick Francis Quotes

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

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

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

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'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

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.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

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.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

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

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

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 like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.