Mary Quant
I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
I love restaurants, and I love cooking.
Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.
I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.
As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.Collection: Giving
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.Collection: Thinking
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.Collection: Fashion
Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.Collection: Rain
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.Collection: Vulgarity Is
One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.Collection: Ideas
All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored firstCollection: People
Fashion should be a game.Collection: Fashion
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the homeCollection: Fashion
Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.Collection: Youth
Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.Collection: Fashion
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.Collection: Men