Anna Sui Quotes

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and that will come out in their work.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

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.

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

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.