From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Bubbles are created when something positive is happening. People get over-enthusiastic about it and take the tide higher than it should go. The reality is bubbles are required to create an industry.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.

If you look at the direction that the world is taking from an advertising and marketing point of view, it is significantly becoming a world that's all about video and all about doing things programmatically. Now what AerServ has is best in-class technology in the form of video programmatic... our acquisition of them gives us that capability.

Team sports is the best for bonding. These sports lessons are also true for startups. You want to be at the top of every endeavour, but you win some and you lose some. As a team, however, you always pump each other up and move forward.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

I love a black wedding dress.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the wrapping off of it, I'm like, 'I've got to look.' It's like yelling at a dog going, 'Squirrel!' I cannot not look. And then I spend the rest of the time sitting there with a wet washcloth on my forehead trying to regain consciousness.

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

I think working hard at anything when you're young and getting positive results, it's always an incredible feeling to see that.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.