With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Work for money, design for love.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Twolegs are mousebrain

Don’t limit yourself by what you’ve achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.