Quotes About Creativity

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

Every season I am inspired by women.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

I have always admired the way women put outfits together.

I want to play interesting women.

I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...