Alexander McQueen Quotes

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I find some collections to be more vibrant than others, but the designers who last are those who are able to continue to be creative within the mold they have cast, usually right at the beginning of their careers.

The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs.

It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.