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" I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm. "

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" When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Beautiful

Beauty

Youth

" Dressing is a way of life. "

" I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea coats to give women the same confidence. "

" I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Myself

Place

" A good model can advance fashion by ten years. "

" Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films. "

" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "

" If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible! "

" We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. "

" When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon! "

" Fashions fade, style is eternal. "

" It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Pains

Fashion

" I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Myself

Sure

" I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. "

" I just tried to be an artist in my own metier. "

" Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Dress

Own

" 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. "

" I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style. "

" I'm so secluded. Very alone. "

" I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Work

Love

" I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Joy

Clothes

" I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. "

" I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. "

Yves Saint Laurent

I Am

Innovation

" I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length. "

" I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. "

" I try to only be in agreeable circumstances. "

" I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.' "

" I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people. "

" The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same. "

" I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right. "