Andre Balazs Quotes

#1. ...because who knew kissing could be like this, could so alter the landscape within, tipping over oceans, sending rivers up mountains, unpouring the rain.

Jandy Nelson

#2. I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Andre Balazs

#3. One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Andre Balazs

#4. Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Rebecca Wells

#5. I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

Andre Balazs

#6. What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. When you found yourself carrying another life inside you, and you were only a child yourself, you'd automatically forget all about the grunts and pains of labour. What had truly conquered your whole thoughts then were the shock, shame and panic.

Diyar Harraz

#8. All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

Andre Balazs

#9. I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

Polixeni Papapetrou

#10. Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Andre Balazs

#11. Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Andre Balazs

#12. I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

Andre Balazs