Narciso Rodriguez Quotes

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

I need art around me always.

Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.