Giambattista Valli Quotes

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Kickstarter was already up and going when I got the Fellowship. Spending time with the other Fellows was about camaraderie, and I talked to a lot of amazing and creative people.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

Pay attention to them kids, don't let your feelings be hurt because they taking your place. They supposed to. But if you wanna stay around with them, you ain't got to copy 'em. Just get the ones that's real young, too young to even be copying yet, because you know they gonna be the next thing.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor because he's a guy who's had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity - and inspired creativity.

I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new space for design.

My brother Alex is so creative. He's good at making stuff and runs his own clothing brand.

I had this vivid dream and woke up and I wrote the 'MyPillow' logo all over the house.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter--someone new? Someone better--maybe YOU!

Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.