Esperanza Spalding Quotes

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

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

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 am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry.

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

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

Creation begins with vision.

Creators start at the end. First they have an idea of what they want to create. Sometimes this is idea is general, and sometimes it is specific. Before you can create what you want you want to create, you must know what you are after, what you want to bring into being.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

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.

I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.