Alexander McQueen Quotes

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

No man was ever great by imitation.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

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

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

I don't study; I create.