Anna Sui Quotes

I view art as an inspirational tool.

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

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

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

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

People who are creative, who do it as a lifestyle, it's kind of silly to make that claim you're done, because you just never know when that spark is going to hit you again. You can't necessarily predict how you're going to feel. In ten years I'll be 58, and I might still feel like making a punk record.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And if I put my mind to it tonight, I think I could take a guitar, and by 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, something will have happened - I'll have had something to hang onto. But I think that's the key.

You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.

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.

I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.