That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
