Azzedine Alaia Quotes

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.