Hedi Slimane Quotes

Surround yourself with positive people.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.

I got a lot of positive people around me.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

Being surrounded with such positive people always helps.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

It is so cool to live with inspiration.

I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

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

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.