Artist Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be more luminous…

— Umberto Boccioni

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for…

— Cristobal Balenciaga

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of…

— Jackson Pollock

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot…

— Jackson Pollock

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be…

— Charles Baudelaire

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

— Nicola Formichetti

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

— Alber Elbaz

The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

— Madeleine Vionnet

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

— Issey Miyake

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

— J. Hoberman

“I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.”

— Rudyard Kipling

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

— Alexander the Great