Alexander McQueen Quotes

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Every film that I make is an accident.

I want to bring art into everything.

The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.