top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Creativity quotes
"Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you."
"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."
"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."
"But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
"My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions."
"Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor."
"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."
"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."
"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."
Explore more quotes by Geoffrey Beene
"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."
"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
bottom of page