No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

We only betray ourselves.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I want to try everything.

The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.