Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

London is a modern Babylon.

I’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it’s not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

I love a natural look in pictures.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

I call architecture frozen music.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.