Gauri Khan Quotes

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

Through art, you create your own world.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Artists need to express.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.