Marc Jacobs Quotes

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

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.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Art is a sense of magic.

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

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

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

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.