Rei Kawakubo Quotes

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never there even when I'm directing a film. You need to have the feeling that you could have done this better.

I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

My stories are never quite good enough.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.'

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

I'm a nervous sharer. I'm nervous to share things in their unfinished state just because, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. You know what it could be, but you can't explain what it's going to be.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

For me, I am not a fan of any of my own matches, and it's both a blessing and a curse. Because I'm never satisfied, I'm always looking to improve in every area.

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.

It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.