Quotes About Inspiration

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

I love Boston; it's like Paris.

I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Paris is a beautiful city.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'

I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.

I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.

As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

Paris has always shown a lot of love towards my music, and I am very grateful.

I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'

I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.

I adore the tapestries at the Musee de Cluny in Paris!