Antoine Predock Quotes

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.