Costume Designer

🇺🇸Martha Graham

Education

1894–1991

"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."

🇺🇸Julie Taymor

Art

b. 1952

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

🇫🇷Coco Chanel

Sports

1883–1971

"Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."

🇩🇪Karl Lagerfeld

Entertainment

1933–2019

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

🇫🇷André Derain

Art

cubism

1880–1954

"What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own."

🇬🇧Derek Jarman

Art

1942–1994

"On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal."

Nicholas Roerich

Philosophy

1874–1947

"They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create a New Era?" Answer, "If the Crusades brought a new age, then truly the Era of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." In such consciousness should one proceed."

🇫🇷Fernand Léger

Art

cubism

1881–1955

"Isn't it human to go beyond the limits, to grow beyond oneself, to strive toward freedom! The round is free."

🇺🇸Tim Gunn

Education

b. 1953

"Stella’s work has helped to redefine and recalibrate our thinking. … Higher-end brands have said they couldn’t exist without fur. Stella proves, of course you can."

🇯🇵Yohji Yamamoto

b. 1943

"Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me."

🇯🇵Nakamura Kichiemon II

Entertainment

1944–2021

"When you discard yourself, real love comes into relief."

🇺🇸Natacha Rambova

Literature

1897–1966

"A sensitive personality is like a great organ. Press the keys of discord and harshness comes forth. Play the keys of beauty and melody delight are given."

Kazimir Malevich

Art

Suprematism

1879–1935

".. the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms'"

🇺🇸Jasper Johns

Art

Expressionism

b. 1930

"I made the flags and targets to open men's eyes.. .. were both things - which are seen and not looked at - examined."

🇮🇹Fortunato Depero

Art

1892–1960

"The Futurists were the first painters, poets, and architects who exalted modern work with their art—"