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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. — Yves Saint-Laurent

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time. — Yves Behar

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. — Yves Klein

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42) — Jean-Yves Leloup

I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime. — Yves Behar

Let our bodies try
To ford a wider time,
Our hands not know
The other shore. — Yves Bonnefoy

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. — Yves Saint-Laurent

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. — Yves Behar

Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest,
Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams. — Yves Bonnefoy

The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own. — Pierre Niney

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas. — Yves Behar

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. — Yves Klein

Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay ... calm. — Yves Behar

The Swiss can be very difficult. — Yves Behar

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing. — Yves Behar

I have written my name on the far side of the sky. — Yves Klein

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Nice. Like the new look. He didn't sound as if he liked it one tiny bit. He sounded fit to be tied down and given a dose of sedatives. — Joss Stirling

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood ... — Yves Klein

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.' — Yves Behar

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. — Yves Klein

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes. — Yves Rossy

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring. — Yves Behar

The sea is the universal sewer. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Fashions fade, style is eternal. — Yves Saint-Laurent

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155) — Jean-Yves Leloup

You ... you want me to argue with you? I thought you wanted me to understand you. — Joss Stirling

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new. — Yves Chauvin

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125) — Jean-Yves Leloup

The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing. — Yves Behar

My paintings are only the ashes of my art — Yves Klein

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator. — Yves Behar

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside. — Yves Saint-Laurent

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Under water, man becomes an archangel. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Elegance and beauty have been banished. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns! — Tamala Jones

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I love bows, ... And I feel some couture pots coming on. — Yves Saint-Laurent

In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I am a makeup junkie ... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good. — Julia Barr

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art. — Yves Klein

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day. — Hedi Slimane

I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy. — Melanie Laurent

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. — Edie Campbell

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I'm so secluded. Very alone. — Yves Saint-Laurent

May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The future of nutrition is found in the oceans — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I was born with a nervous breakdown. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films. — Yves Saint-Laurent

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs. — Yves Behar

Just, in future, an 'I'm-not-going-to-get-myself-killed' note would be appreciated. — Joss Stirling

I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life. — Yves Rossy

Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman. — Laetitia Casta

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. — Yves Tanguy

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer. — Yves Rossy

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous. — Yves Saint-Laurent

We must go and see for ourselves. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught. — Yves Chauvin

The sea is not a bargain basement. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. — Yves Klein

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food. — Yves Chauvin

Fashion fades, style is eternal. — Yves Saint-Laurent

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. — Yves Klein

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — Yves Saint-Laurent

I never felt truly at home in Switzerland. — Yves Behar

I think almost every player has a few very good friends on tour. Mine are: Yves Allegro, Roger Federer, Michael Lammer, and Ivo Klec. — Marco Chiudinelli

Answers make you wise, but questions make you human. — Yves Montand

Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking. — Yves Behar

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians. — Yves Montand

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. — Yves Saint-Laurent

It made him hope that the soul existed, so it could be damned. — Yves Fey

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state. — Yves Klein

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course — Jacques-Yves Cousteau