In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Use whatever talent you have for the service of others and watch it grow and grow.

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.