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.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

The best thing about London is Paris.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.