Ralph Lauren Quotes

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

I need to be creative all the time.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.