Carl Rogers Quotes

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before. It's kind of an alchemy, how we experiment.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.