My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

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.

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.

For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

Should we hold back from loving people because we carry the wounds of a few?

The antagonists of finance’s future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Anything can happen and it probably will.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.