Madeleine Vionnet Quotes

#1. One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Gore Vidal

#2. When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

Zig Ziglar

#3. I thought I knew you," she snapped. "I thought you were a good man, down deep"
Cett shook his head. "The good men are all dead, Allrianne. They died inside that city.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.

Madeleine Vionnet

#5. Because I can see the future and I know what will happen if I let you play with the lawn mower.

Allie Brosh

#6. Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have remained almost as helpless as a baby.

Oliver Sacks

#7. You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

J.D. Salinger

#8. I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,

Madeleine Vionnet

#9. If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.

Madeleine Vionnet

#10. Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

#11. The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

Madeleine Vionnet

#13. When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to

Madeleine Vionnet

#14. The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

James Nesbitt

#15. The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

Madeleine Vionnet

#16. I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

Chip Kidd

#17. I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attain.

Jamie Le Fay

#18. The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

Madeleine Vionnet