Sarah Burton Quotes

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I love being creative in all forms.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.