A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.