Tracy Reese Quotes

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.'

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I lived in South America when I was growing up. I spent hours sketching. I was good at drawing, and I was obsessed with fashion, but I was also obsessed with magazines.

I want to be a designer for my time.

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw.

I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

To be honest, I knew nothing about fashion at all. When I decided to go to college, I just wanted to do something different.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.