Yves Saint-Laurent Quotes

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

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

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

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.

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

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

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.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

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.

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

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,

Fashion fades, style is eternal.

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

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

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

I love bows, ... And I feel some couture pots coming on.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

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.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

I don't really like knees.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Dressing is a way of life.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.