Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.
People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.
I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!
Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. At the end of the Roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the Roman Empire. In the same way, the '60s were a reaction against the '50s and so on. But now we've been feeding on a sort of cadaver. At the moment, we're just endlessly recycling the past.
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.
How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.