Virgil Abloh Quotes

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

I'm interested in creating new work.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

In the morning, Capra would arrive with twenty-or-so pages in which he'd written down all of his ideas. Most were terrible, then all of a sudden there would be one which was astounding.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

'Zara Thehro' stemmed from a thought of marrying two separate thoughts - musical and conceptual.

Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.

I'd love to get in a room with Kanye at some point, have a conversation, and see if something cooks up.