I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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