Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.

I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.

Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as if I were a ship with their hope on it, dropping down over the horizon.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.