Rachel Roy Quotes

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I do believe I was put here to tell stories and be creative in that way. It's given my life so much purpose and meaning, and it's ultimately what I live for.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.