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 don’t really like knees.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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