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.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Where would fashion be without literature?

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.