People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

There is no better designer than nature

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. (As Silent Bob)

You're good salesman, if you make people buyproduct they don't need.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly.

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.