Quotes About Creativity

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.

It gives me a lot of joy when I wear my design at a show and someone asks me who designed my costume.

My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.

I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves that.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page.

I am grateful to those directors who actually designed roles for me.

There's no line between a designer and consumer.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

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

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time.

I was an absolutely untalented 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 had a lot of fun with my costume designer.