Kate Spade Quotes

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years ago, the woman was someone I imagined in my head. Now they're real. It's important my work evolve along with me and that I show more facets of myself.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.