Valentina famous quotes

Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.
-- Valentina

#Fashion #Years #Simplicity

Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.
-- Valentina

#Fighting #Imperfection #Worst

The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.
-- Valentina

#People #Important #Want

Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.
-- Valentina

#Real #Problem #Difficulty

Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.
-- Valentina

#Mistake #Different #Lessons

My beauty simply shines forth like the sun!
-- Valentina

#Shining #Sun

Even with God’s help there is no substitute for the hard work.
-- Valentina

#Hard Work #Helping #Substitutes

It’s much easier to give up, than to put a Fight, but fighters are only people that win.
-- Valentina

#Giving Up #Fighting #Winning

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.
-- Valentina

#Artist #Opportunity #Giving

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.