360 Quotes by Tom Ford

He said, don't go on 3½ . . . . So you hear one, two, and on two the tank behind me blew, and then three. . . . It took everything in my power to stay there for three.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

He's not someone who goes out with an entourage or puts on airs. He doesn't like to surround himself with a bunch of yes men. A lot people don't even know who he is, and I think he likes it that way.

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

I realized that the way I approached architecture was with a somewhat fashion brain. That didn't get me very good marks in school, because everyone thought fashion was lightweight. In architecture they say, "Well, why is the door pink? Where does it go? What does the pink mean? What does it symbolize? All the other doors are beige, why is that one pink?" I was like, "Well, it's pink because it's pretty."

Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.

I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.