Jason Wu Quotes

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.