Donatella Versace Quotes

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.

This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

The formation is not the most important thing.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.

I want to see the '70s guys, if they're gonna do something, stay valid in the '90s. Then they belong. If they're trapped in the '70s, then it's nostalgia. You're not getting me in those platform shoes again.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

Just because something is current doesn't mean it is new.

The most important thing is not to be dogmatic but flexible and consistent.

For me, the most important thing is that I adapt quickly to different conditions and be consistent.

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.