Donatella Versace Quotes

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes.

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

My act is based on my life.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.