Azzedine Alaia Quotes

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

I'm always creative.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

I need to be creative all the time.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

The more you reason the less you create.

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

Imagination comes of not having things.

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

Imagination is the air of mind.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

An idea is salvation by imagination.