Dries van Noten famous quotes
03-23-2025
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For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
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Our role is to dream and inspire rather than collude in impacting the reality.
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When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me at a very young age.
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A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you can do, I think I'm more central than some people in Paris.
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The first and most important thing for me is that people feel how beautiful fashion can be and that it is not just a case of well-made and expensive clothes. Fashion is so rich and it is such an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration - just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers.
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Enjoy your life, fashion is not that important.
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There are boys and girls, there is night and day, but above all there is love.
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I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
-- Dries van Noten
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When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
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Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
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Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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Compromise has a negative connotation.
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I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.
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Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
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Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.
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For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
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A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions,
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Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
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