I think your imagination is your reality

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.