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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 call architecture frozen music.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

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

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

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

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

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.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I love a natural look in pictures.

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

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

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.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

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

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

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.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I’m very proud of the Rome episode of ‚No Reservations‘ because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You’re never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

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.

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

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

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.

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

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

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

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.

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

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.

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.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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