Philosophy

It's become synonymous with clothing but ultimately fashion is anything popular in a culture at any given time.

Supermodel and fashion icon of the 1990s

The inexpressible depth of music... easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all of the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain.

Acclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception

Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves.

Acclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception

We scrutinise a photograph with a sense that we are scrutinising the actual objects themselves, although they are distanced from us in time and space.

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

Images signify- mainly- something 'out there' in space and time that they have to make comprehensible to us as abstractions.

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist,' i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible.

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

When you're behind a camera, you have this incredible power to freeze a moment in time. But with that power comes responsibility. You're not just taking a picture, you're creating a narrative, you're telling a story.

Scottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work

The camera doesn't lie, but the photographer does. And that's the beauty of it. Photography is about interpretation, it's about your point of view, it's about how you see the world.

Scottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work

I don't care about legacy, it's an old idea because we don't consume time like we did before. Time is now simultaneous – before, it was linear. Today it is a wall in front of us. When time is a wall, there is no place for legacy.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

If a product is really good, time will give it the justice of beauty -that's real beauty, intelligence beauty, honest beauty.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

We must never confuse the pipe with the content. Today, we are fascinated by the pipe and nobody thinks of what is within. There is a pipe full of intelligence, and a pipe full of shit. You have to choose the good one, not the fascinating one.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

Life is just receiving a rope from your parents. A rope of a certain quality, with a certain diameter and of a certain material. Your only duty is to take the rope and try to make a better one. Your only duty is to make the best rope you can for your children, for the next generation.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

We are the only species who have taken control of their evolution. We are animals who – one day – had an idea to become better. Billions of us have worked to make ourselves better – that's why we created the concept of God, an entity that is everywhere, that is powerful, that is the master of everything, that gives us a unique model for our society. Now we know God doesn't exist, and so we know we are better than that notion of God.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

That thing of me being anonymous and just the music that's moving the person.

Legendary Guitarist & Producer: Chic Founder, Producer for David Bowie, Madonna

Read a lot. Never accept current standards. Always improve yourself. And remember, you always meet twice in life.

Former Formula 1 World Champion, won 2016 title with Mercedes