Creative Contrast Quotes

Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

I'm kind of a hokey-jokey, campy idiot in black lipstick, but when it comes to my music, I take it very seriously.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that.

So much of rap sounds the same, and that's okay, but that means some people want something that can be the complete opposite too.

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

I think some sing-songwriter music can just be very serious - after an hour and a half of it, you are exhausted - so I try and give it light and shade.

My worst song is stimulating beyond words. My best songs are downright scary.

Our industry holds a musical perception about each emotion that we depict in our narrative. As music composers, our job is either to cater to that particular need or give it a contrast that grows on the audience in a way that it begins to sound more universal, than just obvious and expected.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the sonorities of phrase and summits of thought; and the other who digs and scratches for truth all he can, who is as interested in the little facts as the big ones, who would like to make you feel materially the things he reproduces.