Damon Galgut Quotes

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.

Art is all a matter of personality.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

I just try really hard to be me, and sometimes that means I'm unfiltered. I try to give people myself because I think making a great product is being in touch with how you feel about things and being able to express things. I really hope I can stay in touch with how I feel about things and I'm able to express that.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

I'm certainly not in the business of making anything or anyone seem avant-garde. I make them feel beautiful.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

I know that me personally I'm different than anyone else, just like our mothers all tell us we're all very special and unique and we are, and I think if an actor can stick to trying to make the character resemble something from their own spirit it will automatically be unique.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.