But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I listen and talk to God daily.

I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

I'm ready to create.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

The joy of dressing is an art.

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonalds wearing heels to play football. It is personality confidence and seduction.

Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.