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.
I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.
To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.
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