Quotes About Artistry

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.

Some things are meant to live and die with an artist

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It's not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

Another word for creativity is courage.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.