Art Quote by Sandra Bullock

“This costume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as a final test of grace, and to show that there was nothing too ridiculous…

— Honoré de Balzac

It's amazing to think that every item of clothing we wear began as an idea in somebodies head. Whether it's a designer dress or…

— Dawn O'Porter

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's…

— Colleen Atwood

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

— Will Self

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are…

— Edith Head

“Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes”

— Oscar Wilde

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers…

— Alice Walker

“Clothes do not make the man, but you need the proper costume to play the part.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think of costumes as a character device.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's…

— Jeff Bridges

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made…

— Vincent Paronnaud

I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.

— Collier Schorr