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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.