Hussein Chalayan Quotes

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.

I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed like the most fun.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I love being creative in all forms.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

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

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.