Peter Saville Quotes

#1. One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

Raf Simons

#2. I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Italo Calvino

#4. I never had to answer to anyone

Peter Saville

#5. I tried to cooperate with grace, which is to say, I did not turn on the TV.

Anne Lamott

#6. Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Peter Saville

#7. I just wanted to be open and honest, and being open and honest is a practice rather than a quality.

Stephanie Clifford

#8. Just like a kitten pretending to be a lion.

Kiki Hamilton

#9. I have a lot of difficulty in a business culture that is only interested in making money. I can't see the point. What's the point of spending £10,000 just to make £20,000? Why not just keep the £10,000?

Peter Saville

#10. I woke at intervals until ... the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Annie Dillard

#11. Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don't have any belief then you can't give anything - designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It's important to know what your values are and to take care of them.

Peter Saville

#12. The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

John Mayer

#13. The pain was so huge he felt small and weak and helpless inside it,

George R R Martin

#14. African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

George Ayittey

#15. As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

Criss Jami

#16. Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

Louis Auchincloss

#17. She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

Kanye West

#18. The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate and thoughtful they are. There are great American actors, too, don't get me wrong, but the technique that British actors have is something really special.

Frank Spotnitz

#19. My first horror film was - well, I don't know. 'Bless the Child' is sort of genre, but 'May' was such a cult hit that after that, I just started getting offers for horror. I think I got a little bit pigeonholed in it right off of 'May' because there was just such a large response to that film.

Angela Bettis