Alexander McQueen Quotes

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

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

I'm interested in creating new work.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

Ideas are the root of creation.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

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

I feel like every time I do a video I say I want to make it like a movie, I want to make it very entertaining. So I start to just scan in my brain for what I haven't done before so I can do something unique and ridiculous, and what that song means.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.