I'm concerned with not ever being fashionable.

I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

Creativity is mistakes.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

Originality is for people with short memories

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

I cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.