Peter Ustinov Quotes

My Pirelli calendar is hanging on the wall of my friend's frat house, and he doesn't know anything about fashion. That balance is what leads to big campaigns outside of fashion. But I never want to choose one or the other. Both commercial and high fashion are what make my job so interesting.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

The Barbara Hepworth museum in St. Ives is fascinating. Her achievements were astonishing.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if the photograph was good, it was mostly thanks to the photographer.

Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.