All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

There has always been a correlation between money and art.

My alter ego does not look in too great a mood today.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

What I admire about Snoop Dogg is his longevity. I mean, he's been around for a long time and I think he's as good as he's ever been.

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

A child's giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Lazy and indifferent the heron returns

Every Place where we feel safety is a Treasure.Jan Jansen

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

In everything, love simplicity.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.