Donna Karan Quotes

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

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.