If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

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