"Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self."

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Source : Valerie Steele (2005). “Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion”, Charles Scribners Sons/Reference

Valerie Steele

#Fashion Quotes #Art Quotes #Self Quotes

“All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.”
“I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.”

Source : Life Interview, January 1991.
“The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride...”
“...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things...”
“Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.”
“In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.”
“With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.”

Source : "Stage to Screens: Zosia Mamet, One of the "Girls," Is Now Really Really Starring Off-broadway". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. February 19, 2013.
“As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high”

Source : "Schu voted Germany's star of the century". www.abc.net.au. November 20, 2004.

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