#Ideas

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

"Different people have different ideas. We need to kill them—the ideas, not the people. The people we just need to torture."

"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."

"Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not."

"Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words,formulated by scholar into knowledge."

"A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them."

"I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas."

"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."

"A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

"Most ideas are born and lost in isolation."

"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."

"My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way."

"In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe."

"The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners."

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."

"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."

"Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world."

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."