Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained amazing stories.

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.