Quotes About Ideas

I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there." "We've all felt that" "And all of us, one way or another, are insane.

insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

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