Gloria Vanderbilt
I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.Collection: Beauty
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.Collection: Imagination
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.Collection: Success
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.
Everything in life is elusive.
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
The heart of another is a dark forest.
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
I believe in marriage and fidelity.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.
I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.
When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'
If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.
I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.
Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
I lived in Europe until I was 9, really.
I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.
I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.Collection: Fighting
You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.Collection: Feet
I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.Collection: Love Is
If you have health, you have everything.Collection: Ifs
I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.Collection: Ideas
I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.Collection: Thinking
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.Collection: Heart
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.Collection: Loss
I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.Collection: Phones
To be happy--one must find one's blissCollection: Healing
I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.Collection: Men
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.Collection: Life
I'm the girliest girl you are ever going to meet.Collection: Girl
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.Collection: Philosophy
When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.Collection: Skins