Quotes of: Frida Keyword

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Ben Nicholson

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

Olivier Theyskens

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Raf Simons

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Stephen Sprouse

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

Hero: Myth/image/symbol, The

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

Balthus

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Frank Stella

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

Giles Duley

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

Ori Gersht

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

O. Winston Link

I'm lucky that I have a supportive partner who loves me when I'm bigger as well as slim.

Penny Lancaster

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

Richard Avedon

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.

Roger A. Caras

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

Tyler Knott Gregson

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

Louis Faurer

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

Laurie Simmons

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sam Abell