Quotes About Idea

In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea of social sculpture.

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of public persona - it's all about the fame of the artist. I really don't want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

I've worked on a lot of fighting games, so I was very used to the idea of combat sounds.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

The idea of service leads to community.

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.

Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.

This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time.

Beyond brand, culture can help drive your product itself by creating the conditions for the idea generation that is and will continue to be the lifeblood of any company.

There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

I want to reignite the idea of community with a positive conservatism in which the word 'development' has a new connotation, kind of like a social revolution.

I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.

We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.