Duplicate Quote by Michael Patrick Walker

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

— Pablo Picasso

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

— Stephen Hawking

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

— Eric Hoffer

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far…

— Samuel R. Delany

You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

— Christian Marclay

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

— Umberto Eco

Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and…

— Barry Nalebuff

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just…

— Ricky Gervais

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone,…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

— Joyce Carol Oates

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is…

— Stephen Hawking