They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

We all look for lost time.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be a physical context, or a political one, or a cultural one, whatever.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.