Isaac Mizrahi Quotes

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

I'm interested in creating new work.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

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

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.