At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.
I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint. . . and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.