Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
History is the science of people.
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.
I love the focus and bravery of European designers, but I love the nonchalance and throwaway aspect of America that has made Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein two of the greatest icons. I try to bridge those two worlds in my work. The clothes may be couture on the runway but there's an attitude that's very street and that comes from America.