Lilly Pulitzer Quotes

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't have thought of.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

It takes vision and courage to create

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.