There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.
I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.
