Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

I just believe in equality for all.

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I'm an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.

I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.

I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at.

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

The primary goal of IoT is to solve business problems, not to deliver a cool project or new technology. Focus on a business-relevant problem, and work with your customer to solve it.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Do what you love and the money will follow.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.