Quotes About Inspiration

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.