Getting to the heart of things, is never easy

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 only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

Religion will never show the way.

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.

Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.