Yves Quotes & Sayings

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing. — Yves Behar

Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest,
Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams. — Yves Bonnefoy

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous. — Yves Saint-Laurent

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I am a makeup junkie ... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good. — Julia Barr

My paintings are only the ashes of my art — Yves Klein

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas. — Yves Behar

One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice. — Pierre Niney

I love bows, ... And I feel some couture pots coming on. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea. — Rabih Alameddine

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful. — Yves Saint-Laurent

How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught. — Yves Chauvin

Nice. Like the new look. He didn't sound as if he liked it one tiny bit. He sounded fit to be tied down and given a dose of sedatives. — Joss Stirling

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. — Yves Tanguy

Under water, man becomes an archangel. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Fashion fades...style is eternal"
Yves St Laurent — Nicole Jenkins

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery. — Yves Behar

I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery. — Yves Chauvin

In other words, "free markets" ideology, with its libertarian idealism, has in fact produced Mussolini-style corporatism. And until we learn to call the resulting looting by its proper name, it is certain to continue. — Yves Smith

I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley. — Yves Behar

It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'. — Yves Klein

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays. — Coco Chanel

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119) — Jean-Yves Leloup

I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy. — Yves Klein

My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle. — Yves Chauvin

I don't think there is the same space for fashion designers to create like Yves was doing it. So, it's that he's one of the last, great geniuses in fashion. — Gaspard Ulliel

Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous. — Yves Behar

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring. — Yves Behar

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. — Yves Saint-Laurent

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
— Yves Saint-Laurent

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer. — Yves Rossy

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design. — Yves Behar

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer. — Yves Behar

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met. — Marilyn Monroe

Chanel gave women freedom. Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) gave them power. — Pierre Berge

Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space. — Yves Klein

I'm so pleased you're such a quick judge of character. You've got him tagged."
"Yep, toe-tagged, in the freezer, then buried six feet under. — Joss Stirling

It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school. — Yves Chauvin

I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed ... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world. — Yves Klein

We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had to express his innermost convictions, the profound meaning he ascribed to life, he could probably have cited nothing more than a slight disappointment. — Michel Houellebecq

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh? — Yves Montand

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat. — Deirdre O'Kane

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) — Jean-Yves Leloup

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy. — Melanie Laurent

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.' — Yves Behar

A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them. — Yves Saint-Laurent

There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan ... Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I wanted to be a writer as a teen ... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.' — Yves Behar

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.) — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to. — Yves Behar

Fashions fade, style is eternal. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Jean-Yves looked up at his mother's face, her greying chignon, her harsh features: it was difficult to feel a rush of tenderness, of affection for this woman; as far back as he could remember, she had never really been one for hugs; it was equally difficult to imagine her in the role of a sensual lover, a slut. He suddenly realised that his father must have been bored shitless his whole life. He felt terribly shocked by this, his hands tensed on the edge of the table: this time it was irreparable, it was definitive. In despair, he tried to recall a moment when he had seen his father beaming, happy, genuinely glad to be alive. — Michel Houellebecq

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook. — Yves Rossy

The Swiss can be very difficult. — Yves Behar

I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen. — Yves Behar

Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to exploring and protecting our seas, in large part through documentary film. — Philippe Cousteau Jr.

For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed. — Yves Behar

I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves. — Yves Behar

I have written my name on the far side of the sky. — Yves Klein

I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change. — Yves Behar

I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me
a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag. — Carine Roitfeld

Yves. You are goint to love him all over again when you meet him, believe me. You're married.'
'I'm what? But I can't be more than eighteen!'
'My son is very persuasive,' said Saul proudly. — Joss Stirling

I'm not a little woman you need to defend.'
His face hardened. 'That's exactly what you are: you're my little woman and I'm not having you sacrifice yourself for me. — Joss Stirling

For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever. — Yves Saint-Laurent

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) — Jean-Yves Leloup

Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream. — Yves Rossy

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. — Yves Klein

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me. — Zachary Cole Smith

I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style. — Yves Behar

Just, in future, an 'I'm-not-going-to-get-myself-killed' note would be appreciated. — Joss Stirling

Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance. — Carine Roitfeld

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating. — Yves Montand

Dressing is a way of life. — Yves Saint-Laurent

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. — Bella Freud

Increasingly, the winners in today's business environment are those companies that know how to leverage complexity and exploit it to create competitive advantage. — Yves Morieux

I'm so secluded. Very alone. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that exhibition at the Met in 1983. Because I'm sure that Saint Laurent started looking back at his own work. You see that with artists, don't you? Once they get their first retrospective, it's really hard for them to push ahead. — Suzy Menkes

Let our bodies try
To ford a wider time,
Our hands not know
The other shore. — Yves Bonnefoy

Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I never felt truly at home in Switzerland. — Yves Behar