I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.
The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.
When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers.
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
