The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Obviously black matches with everything.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It’s a physical experience.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

I like to be creative.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets… and full skirts. And then we do another look that’s ’50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I’m not in costume, I dress really normal.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

My jewelry’s all fake – from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

I like being a writer.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.