“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

“One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.”

“I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them.”