I do what I think is right.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."