Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
Oscar De La RentaRead
I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.
Interpretation
The word 'pretty' lacks depth and fails to capture true beauty.
Oscar De La Renta criticizes the term 'pretty', suggesting that it is a superficial label that diminishes the true essence of beauty. He implies that beauty should be appreciated in a more profound and meaningful way, rather than being reduced to a simplistic and vacant description.
In practice
In a discussion on art versus superficial beauty, this quote can highlight the importance of depth.
Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.
I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
The essence of style is how you live your life
Be the designer of your own destiny.
Fashion is a trend, style is within a person.
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.
My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.
There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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