While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

There has always been a correlation between money and art.

My alter ego does not look in too great a mood today.

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

What I admire about Snoop Dogg is his longevity. I mean, he's been around for a long time and I think he's as good as he's ever been.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Love what you do!

It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.

It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.