ideas

Do you need an idea to start drawing or painting? Nice question, stupid answer. Therefore... Perhaps the answer can be : "no, you don't need an idea to start drawing or painting". For sure you don't need a big or huge idea, already a small, tiny, little and simple idea can be enough. About for instance the materials so close to the draughtsman, like the sheet of white paper. The difficult part is not to get an idea but to continue with a simple idea into the depths of the unknown, in opposite of getting bored already after half an hour. To continue with a simple idea means you have to explore it by making variations and failure as much as possible.
Emile Cioran (1911 - 1995): "What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough".