Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.
I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'
People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
