I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead