Beene Quotes

#1. Design is an unknown.

Geoffrey Beene

#2. A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

Geoffrey Beene

#3. I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion ... I could be a colorist of spaceships.

Geoffrey Beene

#4. Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

Erma Bombeck

#5. The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Geoffrey Beene

#6. The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

Geoffrey Beene

#7. When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Geoffrey Beene

#8. If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

George Herbert

#9. Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Geoffrey Beene

#10. I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Geoffrey Beene

#11. I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

Geoffrey Beene

#12. Druids were supposed to be forces of preservation, not destruction, and I could not dance around the fact that my stupid pride had turned me into a misbegotten cockwaffle.

Kevin Hearne

#13. I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

Gregory Corso

#14. Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

Geoffrey Beene

#15. When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

Marlee Matlin

#16. I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Geoffrey Beene

#17. Beene-beene. The truest truth.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Geoffrey Beene

#19. Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

Geoffrey Beene

#20. Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Geoffrey Beene

#21. But don't you want lots of money?"
"Beene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Geoffrey Beene

#23. I think I've lost my faith
and I can't stop writing
because I don't know how
much longer I can hold on.

Emma Forrest

#24. I want to die, even though I don't have to.

Epictetus

#25. The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

Geoffrey Beene