Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers. " He says �peacemakers. � He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
The world needs some excitement from fashion.
You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.
All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.