Giuseppe Zanotti Quotes

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

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

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Talent works, genius creates.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.