The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

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.

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

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.

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

I raised four kids in six years.

I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

She didn’t hurt you? (Acheron) Nope. I’m all hunky-dory. (Tory)

Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.

What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware of something ugly or evil or stupid.

That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.