Stella McCartney Quotes

For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

I grew up with artists.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

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.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Live with all of your senses.

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

I have two sisters that are directors: one's in documentary, one's in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I've been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.

I come from a family of artists.