Gauri Khan Quotes

It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

All the young designers now are doing something interesting.

I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.

When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art.

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film.

When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.

My idea is to paint paintings so that when you walk into a room, I'm pulling you in, or that makes you suddenly stop and wonder: 'What is this? There is something groovy, something else going on here.' Also, I want to give you what is obvious and what is not obvious to the eye.

When I design a car, I want people to look at it and go, 'Wow, that's kind of interesting,' and do a second take.

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.

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

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

There is always a reason behind things that are made, and if there isn't, there will be one when they travel through the world. The objects of beauty are used to impress, seduce, overwhelm, make money, support identities, and show power or style, among other things.

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

The clever thing about the designs on 'Strictly' is that the razzle-dazzle comes from the materials used in making the dresses rather than because the cut or style is plunging or revealing.

I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

Our style, in one word, the Image guys, our approach to the page was bold.

Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.