Gianni Versace

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.