There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs
Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.
Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.
I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
