Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
S. E. Hinton

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas de Chamfort

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Paul Valery

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

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
Graham Chapman

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
Roger Daltrey

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.
Gwen Stefani

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
Ben Stiller

My ideas are my whores.
Denis Diderot

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
Helmut Newton

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
Evelyn Waugh

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
Leo Burnett

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
Leo Burnett

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
Jasper Johns

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
Jasper Johns