Vidal Sassoon Quotes

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Art is both creation and recreation.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter