Azzedine Alaia Quotes

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

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

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.