I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

One may live without bread, not without roses.

I shave without using shaving cream.

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.