Arthur Koestler Quotes

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

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

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

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

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

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

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

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.

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

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!