My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.
In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.
I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.
For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.
I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.
I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
