I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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