Yves Saint Laurent Quotes - Page 3

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

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

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.