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All Quotes by author - Iris Apfel
" Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young. "
Aging
Look
Makeup
" Anything that's feathery-looking, I love. "
I Love
Love
Anything
" Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life. "
Effort
Life
Style
" Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening. "
Life
Wonderful
Threatening
" Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form. "
Art
Done
Art Form
" Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing. "
Believe
Fool
Woman
" Colour can raise the dead. "
Dead
Colour
Raise
" Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky. "
Creativity
Work
Sky
" Fashion and interior design are one and the same. "
Interior
Design
Fashion
" Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars. "
Youth
Ladies
Mania
" Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money. "
Sad
Fashion
Money
" Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself. "
Yourself
Style
Great
" I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art. "
Art
Effort
People
" I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan. "
Tell
People
Always
" I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe. "
Up
Home
Dress
" I call myself a geriatric starlet. "
Myself
Geriatric
Call
" I didn't have children, but I never wanted children. "
Wanted
Children
Never
" I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do. "
Beauty
Simple
Time
" I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired. "
Sometimes
Step
Inspiration
" I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans. "
People
Busy
Day
" I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. "
God
People
Think
" I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media. "
Media
Look
Much
" I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find. "
Sometimes
Search
Process
" If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh. "
People
Challenges
Grow
" I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment. "
Things
Standard
Involved
" I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know. "
New York
Day
Internet
" I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers. "
Know
Man
Thought
" I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson. "
Together
Done
Politics
" I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones. "
People
Hate
Silly
" I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it. "
Try
Think
Carry
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