I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!

Not everybody hates me. Only the people who've met me.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

"Love me or hate me, I promise it won't make or break me."

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.