"Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest."

“For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.”

“What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.”

“My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.”

“However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.”

Source : "Ethical Ambition".

“Design is an unknown.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

“The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.”

“I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.”

“I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.”