Christian Louboutin Quotes

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

I can concentrate on my art.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

I like having a studio to go to. It's like having a job.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

For me to be creative, I have to have peace.

I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

Sometimes, I sketch, but not every day. I sketch random things, whatever I can get my mind into. I'm not a professional, it is just a hobby I've started.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping