Tom Ford Quotes

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.

Dance is my passion, and I feel so strongly about it that just watching people dance lights up my face and makes me come alive.

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

There is creation in the eye.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Never abandon imagination

It's whether they have a vision and whether they're able to communicate it. The best director is just someone who gets over-excited about doing it - they don't even have to know much about camera or acting.

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.