Donna Karan Quotes

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

In a time of destruction, create something.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

Hope is the best possession.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

As for me, I'm an optimist.

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.