When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.