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"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."

"My pond life with hydra is over, now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.."

"Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book."

"Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody "a creative person" is almost laughably redundant; creativity is the hallmark of our species. We have the sense for it; we have the curiosity for it; we have the opposable thumbs for it; we have the rhythm for it; we have the language and the excitement and the innate connection to divinity for it.If you're alive, you're a creative person. You and I and everyone you know are descended from tens of thousands of years of makers. Decorators, tinkerers, storytellers, dancers, explorers, fiddlers, drummers, builders, growers, problem-solvers, and embellishers--these are our common ancestors."

"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh."
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"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."

"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."

"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."

"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 influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."

"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."

"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
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