A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Work for money, design for love.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Rule One, boy: shoot first then ask questions Rulw Two, Double tap just for good measure. Better safe then sorry. -Bubba