Quotes About Creativity

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

I don't like to follow too many trends because trends tend to make women look like they are wearing uniforms.

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

I never see one woman when I design, it's always a universe of women

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.

What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance - I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.

I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.