Erin Wasson Quotes

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

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.

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.

'Tongue' is literally just one piece of the puzzle. This album is something I've worked on over the course of my entire career and something I've been discovering myself in it.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

To create something you must be something.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Art helped give me confidence.

I design therefore I become.

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to grow.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

For me, what's important is to be inspired and keep moving to grow as an artist and as a person.

I was fortunate to literally find my style on camera working in Canada.

I look to many different women for inspiration but try to make things my own.