“I started with the origins of tradition, but I was not bound by it.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view—I am not designing clothes, I’m creating a world.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“Even if you want to stick to an idea, if it doesn't work for you, it will change on its own accord. Be patient.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“When creativity comes to you for some good reason, be thankful. That's all you have to do.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Is it worth being so talented if you also have to suffer from a profound sensitivity that is intrinsically connected to your gifts?”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I only write when I'm inspired. I don't make sure I'm inspired every day at 10 AM; I don't work that way.”— Maggie Rodgers, harpersbazaar.com
“It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way”— Adam Savage, wired.com
“Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see...”— Stephen Sondheim, en.wikipedia.org
“remember. you were a writer before you ever put word to paper. just because you were not writing externally. does not mean you were not writing internally.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“when creating. be kind to your doubt. hear it out. thank it for its concern. and reassure it that you are an artist. and risk is essential.”— Nayyirah Waheed, twitter.com
“In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet, to be rid of the influence of civilization. I want only to do simple, very simple art, and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in mind but to render, the way a…”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“For he who creates must be a world of his own and everything within himself and in the natural world that he has elected to follow.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com