Anna Wintour Quotes

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

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

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

Life and art are inseparable.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

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.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Sometimes I'm on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood, but other times, I'm just totally absorbed by what I'm creating on the easel.

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.