Alexander McQueen Quotes

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.

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

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.

I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.

That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it a lot. I think fantasy is a very important value that designers and artists should bring to the world.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

My brother Alex is so creative. He's good at making stuff and runs his own clothing brand.

There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.

Order and creativity are complementary.

I think fashion has a lot to do with passion and that's where you get your inspiration.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

There is no better designer than nature

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about creativity at the end of the day, whether you're talking about fashion, technology or music, and that's what my L.A.M.B. bags are about.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.