I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

We all look for lost time.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Jesus, Food of strong souls, strengthen me, purify me, make me godlike

You got to get it while you can.

A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know