The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

The most important thing in art is taste.

People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.