"I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel."

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Source : "A life in Vogue: Hamish Bowles". Interview with Wendy Donahue, www.chicagotribune.com. May 16, 2014.

Hamish Bowles

#New York Quotes #Fleas Quotes #Flea Markets Quotes

“I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC”
“I'll never have a stylist.”
“Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.”
“My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.”

Source : Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
“There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!”
“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.”
“I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.”

Source : "Song: "The Poverty of Philosophy" ("Revolutionary Vol. 1")". September 18, 2001.
“Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens.”

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