Dries van Noten quote: "People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that."

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coc...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less &#...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But ...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I'm known for color and prints and embroideries.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

When I have to do something fast, I wear the most unflattering rubber pants over my pants and a big ...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected propo...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much informat...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of wom...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collec...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

When I get very stressed, I make jam. I like things that produce a quick result, because fashion has...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no po...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New ...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a l...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color ...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I'm waltzing with the wrecking ball
'Cause this ain't my home anymore.
AARON DRIES

Starke entered his house a detective, slipped off his shoes and became a husband and father. It was ...
AARON DRIES

We're nothing. We're dust.
AARON DRIES

Behind every summer is a fall just waiting to happen.
AARON DRIES

Nobody wants to be alone. Sure, we fill our lives with people, faces that come and go, we love a lot...
AARON DRIES

Michael Delaney used to be fat. Not puppy-padding fat—bursting-frankfurts-in-a-boiling-pot fat. He...
AARON DRIES

Darkness fell, gathering sin.
AARON DRIES

Yes, this was a haunted place. He had read
about certain materials absorbing the sounds of thei...
AARON DRIES

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON

What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON

The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON

hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON

From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS

I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN

[In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON

His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON

[10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON

Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN

I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN

This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER

Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER

Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN

Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER

We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN

It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE

That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE

It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE

a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE

Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE

My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE

There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN

I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN

We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET

I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN

She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN

Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN

It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN

You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN

We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN

I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN

It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN

It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR

The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN

I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER

Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER

The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON

Jump!
VAN HALEN

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER

has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE

First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER

Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON

They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus,
VAN ORDEN

He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
VAN JONES

It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the ...
LINDSAY VAN

I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it ...
LINDSAY VAN

Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD

The media market it fragmenting like crazy right now,
VAN BAKER

We do have great depth, and great depth is good,
VAN CHANCELLOR

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.
VAN CLIBURN

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting tou...
VAN COLEMAN

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on ...
VAN HEFLIN

Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN

Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT

The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was gr...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that t...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly wh...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through l...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led ...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wh...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris...
HARRIET VAN HORNE

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
HARRIET VAN HORNE

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by se...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most hone...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
GUS VAN SANT

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsessio...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven...
DICK VAN DYKE

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it...
DICK VAN DYKE

There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... ...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle o...
GREG VAN EEKHOUT

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between t...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearl...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
HENRY VAN DYKE

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.

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Dries van Noten

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.

Dries van Noten

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