Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of innovation and creativity using what we already have.
Karl Lagerfeld highlights the value of creativity through the process of reinventing and combining existing resources. He suggests that one should engage in improvisation and creative thinking not out of necessity, but out of desire, framing evolution as a vital step in personal and artistic growth.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a creative workshop to inspire participants.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.
It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.
When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
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