Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Buildings are forms of performances.