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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
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
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
Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest,
Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams. — Yves Bonnefoy
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
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
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
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
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
[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
I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.
— Yves Rossy
Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
— Yves Tanguy
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
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
I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
— Yves Saint-Laurent