Donna Karan Quotes

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

My work is intensely personal.

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

Design is an expression of one's most deeply rooted internal values.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

I've always been interested in clothing because it's an extension of how we feel.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?

Fashion is an expression of what you're feeling.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.

At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist. Those of us who become photographers are never satisfied with just looking at someone else's expression of something that is dear to us. We must produce our own images, instead of buying postcards and photo books. We seek to make our own statements of individuality.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.