Jonathan Anderson Quotes

While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

Sounds always fascinated me.

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them.

I like beautiful things that are striking.

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.