All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need t….

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life..

Any woman is sexual, absolutely..

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints..

If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most peop….

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material..

I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a walk and spend time outside to clear my mind.….

This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had c….

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the n….

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea..

That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I re….

Ideas do not need weapons..

I see things in a specific way. All the films are different. There are specific characters and scenes and locations and ideas. There are colors I wan….

Everything kind of was leading towards that and I had so many specific ideas always about how exactly I wanted something to look. I would customize s….

I was put here to sing..

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes incre….

I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the cl….

I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by s….

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewher….

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up..

New ideas must use old buildings.