I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

I feel alone and safe in public.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.