Georgina Chapman Quotes

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity. It reminds one that there is always more where that came from and there is never any shortage of ideas or of the ability to create. The process of being pregnant and then of having the baby and getting up in the night only puts one more in touch with this fecund part of one's self.

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Trust your creativity.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

Creativity is just connecting things.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

Composing is like making love to the future.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.