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Criticism doesn’t worry me.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I always live in multiple places. I’m never in the same city for seven days.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t do the vintage thing so much, just because it’s not me. There are some vintage designers I’ll buy things from, but mostly not.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they’re the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill what you’re brand means within a T-shirt.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I can come up with 30 T-shirt designs in a day, but it’s just about where to slot each of them. That’s streetwear to me. It’s about knowing where to buy things, not this mass thing you can get anywhere.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My friends and me, we’re the type that don’t care. We’re not into fashion. That’s, like, millennial spirit.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The best New Year’s resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I have this overriding principle that streetwear could end up like disco: that it will be perceived well at the time but doesn’t age well at all.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first – so everyone is always looking.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it’s coming from, it’s not going to be lasting.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

People, when they say ‘streetwear,’ they miss the central component, which is that it’s real people; it’s clothes that are worn on the street.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

From my perspective, I’m trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I was never meant to, like, work and then turn it off and sit on the couch. I just have a vision, and I’m inspired by it. It’s sort of what makes me tick.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I oftentimes say that I design my collections off my phone. I’m in a group chat with my team in Milan. I copy and paste. I draw. I look at trends. I don’t really have an assistant. It’s a modern way of working. I don’t know if it’s sustainable, but it’s how I do it.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I suck at sleeping.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

‘Creative director’ is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It’s like being a counselor.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Clothing interests me, but it’s not the endpoint of my interest.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

You can look at Lil Uzi and know he has a strong opinion about his aesthetic.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn’t putting my opinion first. It’s supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My style is to never say no.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic tees says a lot about your point of view.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Murakami’s ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Growing up, at high school, we all used to wear Champion garments, which, in America, are standard-issue gym uniforms.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Pyrex Vision’s first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’m always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren’t possible.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I want to put culture on a track so that it becomes more inclusive, more open source.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

It is an honor for me to accept the position of men’s artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The blue-collar culture, it’s not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It’s a heavy-labor thing because you’re, like, sweating.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’d do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I always joke that, at any given time, I’m supposed to be at two other places.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we’ve seen that done in fashion before – it’s not a new concept – but it hasn’t been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’m constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I’m traveling to.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I started off as a kid who didn’t care what my education was.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t know where my parents got my name. I’m sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

There’s a part of me that’s trying to represent kids that don’t necessarily have the same outlet that I have. I’m not looking towards a new demographic. I’m looking towards the demographic I came from.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you’re working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his artistic language into today’s world, choosing, for example, to use pedestrian-crossing stripes as a symbol.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’m fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Ironic things are interesting.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don’t belong, that our generation doesn’t belong.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the ’90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the ’90s, there were different styles that went along with the different influences in skateboarding, whether that be hip-hop or rock and roll and grunge. And that’s what I was into, so I was following all that.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The concept with Off-White is that I have no ideal target. It’s more about trying to make something for everyone. And I think that’s what helps make it unique. That there isn’t a specific muse.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Kanye looks for the best in everything.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I want Off-White to be a graphics-based brand.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My lifestyle doesn’t really account for movies. I can’t even remember what I last saw.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’m mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague – just whatever I find intriguing.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Collaboration is not a punchline… I only collaborate with the best in each category.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t have the patience to be a non-creator.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t play golf.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’ve been DJing since I was in high school.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t sleep as much as normal people do.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it’s because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can’t mentally stay still. You can’t not challenge yourself.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that’s your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know – you start designing by numbers.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I look at culture, and I see what the kids around me are wearing, and I see a particular style. I understand the space between fashion and streetwear.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

As a young designer in tune with culture, I’m interested in the lifeline of trends.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

There’s no line between a designer and consumer.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’m not really into style. I’m more into confidence or having something to say.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn’t have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’ve always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I’m the lowest rung on the ladder.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I don’t come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That’s how I’ve always been.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It’s an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

For me, there’s a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it’s boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I’m a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The most important message is to let me just focus on making the most beautiful normcore clothes, but as luxurious as possible.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I’m friends with, and they’re empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes – the clothes don’t wear them.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there’s a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Art is made in hindsight.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That’s an industry, you know. I’m trying to make art on a commercial scale.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The fashion consumer likes a high-low mix – I want to be a brand that represents that.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Fashion is kinda a joke. I don’t get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it’s one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there’s gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Kanye’s the best. He really, really is. He’s cool. And why we’ve always gotten along is because we can just sit down and talk about art.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that’s how you create things that are totally new.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Whenever I’m doing a collection, I’m inspired by the world around us.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

I do fashion to tell a narrative.

Designer, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Don’t fight forces, use them.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Tension is the great integrity.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is a tendency.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Designer, R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll go write four books about it.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect must be a prophet… a prophet in the true sense of the term… if he can’t see at least ten years ahead don’t call him an architect.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is only more where more is no good.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Persian Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

People have asked me, ‘What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?’ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Trump has no sense of shame.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The idea that putting Americans ‘first’ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‘shining city on a hill.’ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

It was the Congress that imposed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‘Gee, isn’t that wonderful?’

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Some of the generals are saying, ‘We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.’ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Get mad, then get over it.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Colin Powell, Designer

Colin Powell

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Elegance is refusal.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Great loves too must be endured.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

My friends, there are no friends.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

A woman has the age she deserves.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I don’t think I’m a celebrity. I’m just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I don’t design cars. I’m not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we’ll be working against – but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don’t do anything.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that’s their ambition, and I don’t know very many of them that are happy.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I’ve always been asked, ‘What is my favorite car?’ and I’ve always said ‘The next one.’

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I didn’t have time for my children much. I wasn’t a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I love horsepower.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I’ve had a good run. I’ve built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn’t work.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I’m a terrible husband.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I’ve got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I’ve also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

It’s a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn’t my No. 1 priority.

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I’m getting there: I’ve found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don’t need to do that any more.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you’re an open book, there’s no allure.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don’t want to see me.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I’m mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Really, what I’m aiming for is world domination!

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn’t label that commercialism; it’s more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you’ve always got to push yourself forward; you’ve always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That’s what I do.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I’m interested in designing for posterity.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don’t want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I can’t get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it’s just crass.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I work with people I admire and respect. It’s never because of who they are.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I never look at other people’s work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I’ve had good times; I’ve had bad times.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

My relationships with producers or photographers – these are relationships that took years.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

It’s a new era in fashion – there are no rules. It’s all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

You can get insular with fashion.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

It’s good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It’s DNA, it’s in your blood.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

It’s usually only the intellectual ones who understand what’s going on in what I do.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there’s no room for fault. But I don’t expect to turn things around all by myself. I’m not a saint.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

It’s not my vision when I cover a woman’s face with a chador. I got the idea from a ‘National Geographic’ photo. I’m just showing their plight in the world.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I’m not interested in being liked.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

When I’m dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by .

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I’m not big on women looking naive.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I am married to work.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It’s usually only the intellectual ones who understand what’s going on in what I do.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there’s no room for fault. But I don’t expect to turn things around all by myself. I’m not a saint.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Of course I make mistakes. I’m human. If I didn’t make mistakes, I’d never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do – but that part is for me. It’s my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There’s a sadness to it, but there’s romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Menswear is about subtlety. It’s about good style and good taste.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I don’t want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that’s how I got my first backers. But fashion’s a scary industry to be in, especially if you’ve not grown up with it.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I’ve always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it’s late.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Give me time and I’ll give you a revolution.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Nicey nicey just doesn’t do it for me.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

The police need to come down to street level.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now – no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Rap music’s been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn’t.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I’m not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not… black.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen

Sting’s my ideal man, because he’s a real man.

Alexander McQueen, Designer

Alexander McQueen