Donna Karan Quotes

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.

When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.

There is something special when creative people get together.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

I like working together with different producers. Of course the process is different, producing a new track is like creating something all new, while reworking an already existing track is more like giving your own twist to the record.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.