Virgil Abloh Quotes

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

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

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I like to create.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.