Evolving Ideas Quotes

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Falsehoods which we spurn to-day Were the truths of long ago.

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

There's a thing about opinions... They are formulated over time. They tend to change with time, and you are going to change your mind many times.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

In the absence of absolute knowledge one theory is as good as another, as long as it meets all the requirements of practical tests. My theory may be upset tomorrow, but today I look at it as the best of all.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

The real truth - like anything, you have an idea about something you might write and it changes. People reflect on it or you get other ideas and maybe your original idea is radically different than how it ends up being. It's not a theorem. You don't sit down and prove something. You start with an initial idea and it grows and grows. The math of the narrative changes. In some ways your original document and what the film ends up being are quite different.

We change ideas like neckties.

It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb and evolve, and I think more often than not we are squashed, the older we get.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I found some beautiful blue fabric, so I made Blue Witches. My creative process is always like that. Organic, text, theme, subtext, each day evolving and trying to make strong, beautiful clothes. It's that simple.