Miuccia Prada Quotes

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Nature hates calculators.

Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.

The fact of the matter is, if you have to have a process, I think, to figure out how to make everything work together, you just don't get that. But maybe there's a way to do it.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.