Quotes About Authenticity

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

Don't think too much of style.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

Imitation can be commercial suicide.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.