Ron Williams Quotes

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Well, my own men's collection always felt very free back in the days before Jil. Once you make it this kind of dialogue with other people, with a fashion show and clients and whatever, it becomes something else. Free meets not so free.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.