Vague Ideas Quotes:

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Artist, Ideas, Vagueness, Vague

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't

- Crispin Glover

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2003.

topic: Thinking, Ideas, People, Vague Ideas

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

- Herman Koch

source: "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.

topic: Book, Writing, Ideas, Vague Ideas

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

- Radha Mitchell

topic: Art, Ideas, America, Vague Ideas, High Art

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

- Ewan McGregor

source: MarketWatch, September 30, 2008.

topic: Ideas, Tanks, Needs, Petrol, Vague Ideas

What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Morning, Night, Ideas, Critical Mass, Vague Ideas

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

- Janis Ian

topic: Song, Children, Hate, Vague Ideas, Hate Mail

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Ideas, Goal, Shapes, Fugitive, Vague Ideas

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Ideas, Chords, Needed, Vague Ideas

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Song, Writing, Ideas, Vague Ideas

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

- Jhonen Vasquez

topic: Ideas, Preparation, Use, Vague Ideas

As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

- Sally Phillips

topic: Vague Ideas

There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!

- Pope Francis

topic: Father, Son, Clouds, Vague Ideas

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

- Carl von Clausewitz

source: Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.136, Princeton University Press

topic: Ideas, Long, Mind, Vague Ideas

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

- Alan Lightman

source: Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

topic: Ideas, Numbers, Mind, Vague Ideas

You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.

- Evan Peters

source: "Evan Peters, Man of the Year". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 4, 2015.

topic: Character, Ideas, Play, Vague Ideas

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

- Kate Atkinson

topic: Book, Writing, Ideas, Ambience, Vague Ideas

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

- Lazare Carnot

topic: Beautiful, Circles, Ideas, Vague Ideas, Vicious Circles

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.

- Steve Wozniak

topic: Thinking, Years, Ideas, Vague Ideas

I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.

- Lawren Harris

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Creative, Beckoning, Vague Ideas

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

- Ellen G. White

topic: Jesus, Children, Believe, Favor Of God, Vague Ideas

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

- Georges Perec

source: Georges Perec (1987). “Life, a user's manual: fictions”, Collins Harvill Press

topic: Ideas, Twenties, Answers, Vague Ideas

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Looks, May, Woe, Work Done, Draught

Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from.

- Kevin Carson

topic: Hands, Ideas, Slavery, Feudalism, Personalized

After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example.

- Jeremy Silman

topic: Player, Talking, Ideas, Vague Ideas

One must confront vague ideas with clear images,

- Jean-Luc Godard

topic: Ideas, Clear, Vague Ideas

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

- Teresa of Avila

source: St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

topic: Beauty, Ideas, Soul, Vague Ideas