“A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.”
- Daphne Guinness
“I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.”
“It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.”
“I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again - and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but I don't really think about it too much.”
“I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!”
“Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?”
“If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.”
“Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.”
“Nothing terrifies me more than being social.”
“If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.”
“Human beings all mimic each other.”
“There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.”
“My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.”
“Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.”
