Christian Louboutin Quotes

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I wasn't aware it could make me rich or famous. I just wanted to take pictures.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

All I do is make music.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

I'm an artist in my heart.