Quotes About Inspiration

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.'

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.

My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.

Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

The effort you put into anything when you're a designer is 100% because it's all about what you get back out from it.

As a designer, I believe in the power of fashion. It has the ability to not only change how you look but also how you feel about yourself.

I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.

I've always felt like a designer of lifestyle that has a certain spirit and bohemian quality.

Three cheers for the artistry of the lone designer doing his thing!

As a designer, as you get used to Kinect, it's such a different experience for me as a designer - for any designer.

The costume designer Ellen Mirojnick is a genius.

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.