Quotes About Creativity

Q. Why do you write? A. I have found no other way of getting rid of my thoughts.

I will never again read an author of whom I suspect that he wanted to make a book, but only those whose thoughts unexpectedly became a book.

In another letter, he suggests that writing the book was "purchased so dearly and with such hardship that nobody who had the choice would have written it at that price".

Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can't happen... we're not going to do anything very interesting.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental counduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

Si je n'avais pas ce cahier, je crois que je me serais lentement laissée aller au désespoir. Je ne savais pas que les mots peuvent sauver. Aujourd'hui, je le sais : il maintiennent le lien à soi. Ils permettent de ne pas s'égarer dans la nuit profonde de la folie.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting ... but whatever it's worth I did it.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

we all have at least one book hiding in the body

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.