Sofia Richie Quotes

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Modeling isn't boring.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I'm an artist at heart.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

Space is the breath of art.

I need art around me always.

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

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.

I used to draw a lot.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.