Virgil Abloh Quotes

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired.

Everything I make starts very personally.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

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.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.