A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

My dream? To make women happier and more beautiful.

Real woman should be capricious.

It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.

Raising donkeys in the midst of horses will not make them sprinters.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.