It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

There is no better designer than nature

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

I must apologize for calling so late, " said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

Intelligent women always marry fools

In a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things.

Some people in D.C. talk about me like a dog.

On a good bargain think twice.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it's the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it's the choices we don't make.

Fear is the root of all courage.