It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else.

I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.

I think I was a nomad in another life.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work.

Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe the practical with the desirable.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never kind of want to look the same way.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

It's ok to show all your colors.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.