Quotes About Artistry

I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.

Alexander Wang has been one of my favorite designers since I was younger.

Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking a nuanced language. Fashion says a lot for me.

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

I love designing, and I still do it.

Designing comes easy and quickly to me. I don't need to spend hours to complete an X amount of work for me. I feel designing is in me.

My desk is my drums.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

I've seen makeup destroy people and make them look bad if it's badly done.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.

I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work.

I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction.

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.

I don't want to give you the opportunity to find a box to put me in, figure it out later. When the records come out song by song, you'll hear it and get to determine how you want to classify me.

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.