Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Picasso

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Pablo Picasso

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Pablo Picasso

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Paul Schrader

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

Paul Stanley

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Paul McEuen

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

Paul Meyer

The future is built on the flow of new ideas.

Paul Cezanne

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

Patricia McConnell

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

Oscar Wilde

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Oscar Wilde

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Oscar Wilde

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

Oscar Wilde

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Oscar Wilde

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

Madonna Ciccone

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

Madonna Ciccone

Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum

Madonna Ciccone

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Madonna Ciccone

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

Madonna Ciccone

Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

Madonna Ciccone

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

Madonna Ciccone

We live in a world where people like to pit women against each other. And this is why I love the idea of embracing other females who are doing what I'm doing. It's important for us to support each other.

Maajid Nawaz

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

Ma Huateng

Ideas are not important in China – execution is

M. Ward

I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

M. Ward

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

Lykke Li

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

Lucretia Mott

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

Lucinda Williams

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

Lucinda Williams

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Lorna Luft

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Liz Phair

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

Margaret Mahy

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.