I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

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.

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

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.

Good things are always appreciated, bad things deserve ignorance.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing