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

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.

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

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

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.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

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.

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

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

I call architecture frozen music.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

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.

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

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.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

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

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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

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.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.