Concept Quotes

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

Scarlett Thomas
- Life
- Ideas
- Novels
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Arthur Schopenhauer
- Laughter
- Project
- Concept

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.

Albert Einstein
I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Great
- Together
- Writers
I am inspired by the raps of Tiger JK, the pride of Korean Hip-Hop, as well as hip-hop legends Lil Wayne and Tyga. I watch their videos everyday to learn from their splendid performances and techniques. However, our concept is very different from hip-hop so I haven’t been able to show the hip-hop style that I really like. If we do go into that concept, I will show you. I promise

Baro B1A4
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

Elia Kazan
I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

Lauryn Hill Fugees
The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Klemens von Metternich
- Freedom
- Order
- Exist