Helmut Lang Quotes

I do not write, I build.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I just wondered how things were put together.

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

I love creating things. I love making things.

I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn't work anymore, and I'd put things together. I think that's why I like to mix things that don't belong.

Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make 'robots' out of cereal boxes - long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

I enjoy making and creating things.

I just like building stuff.

If you can't create, you destroy.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.