Colleen Atwood Quotes

Inspiration is around you. Like, when I travel any country, be it Paris or London, while walking on the streets, the architecture, the restaurants all inspire me. Inspiration for design could be anywhere.

Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Artists are blessed to travel all over the world. They see the trends before they even come out.

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

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

I'm inspired by everything, really. I'm inspired by locations and travel, I'm inspired by art and music, I'm inspired by people. When my curiosity peaks and I want to know everything about the subject, I want to know how I can get more deeply involved.

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

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

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.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

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

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.