Nicola Formichetti Quotes

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

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

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

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

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.