"An idea is a feat of association."
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"Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you."
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"The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea."
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"The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express."
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"Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea."
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"You remember when Tobey Maguire was first selected, most of the fans were angry. They felt, what kind of a guy is that for a superhero? Nobody thought it was a good idea. Yet he turned out to be great. The people at Marvel who do these things are really pretty smart. If they chose this guy, he'll probably be terrific."
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"My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete."
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"Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas."
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"The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it."
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"I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt."
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"there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up."
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"It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it."
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"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
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"It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works."
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"But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever."
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"Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever."
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"I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally."
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"I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas."
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"It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population."
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"Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas."
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