Jenny Packham Quotes

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

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.

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

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way.

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

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

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

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

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Making art is different for everyone.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?