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Sep 13, 2009

» Steven Grant on where ideas come from

“Ideas” seem to have a mystical quality for most people, but the only reason there’s anything at all mystical about them is that people assume there must be something mystical about them. Every idea is a juxtaposition. That’s it. A juxtaposition of existing concepts.

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When you were a baby you were putting together huge ideas on a second-to-second basis, as you were absorbing and figuring out the world to the point of being able in some small measure to cope with it. Didn’t matter that probably none of those ideas were new – the only time it didn’t matter – it only matters that you had, have, it in you. That you’re here now is proof of this.

via eddie campbell