30 Mary Quant Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mary Quant

English Designer

Born: Feb 11, 1934

Always Fashion Life People Woman You

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I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow. Mary Quant

Love Beautiful Eyes Better Amazing Animals Few Field Live Inquisitive Ten Adore Absolutely Most Talk House Gentle Around Falling Cow Up Cows Than Few Things Being Them Land Asleep Fascinating Things

A woman is as young as her knees. Mary Quant

Woman Young Knees Her

Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street. Mary Quant

Beautiful Strong Most Beautiful Walk King Men Down Strong Men Through Road Over Like Most She Known Chelsea Left Up Walking Models Just Jean Street Right

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. Mary Quant

School More Up Uniform Used Skirt Start

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom. Mary Quant

Freedom People Clothes Saw Run No Reason Retain Allowed Leap Jump Forever Precious Childhood Moved Worked Created Reason Why Last

Only ugliness is obscene. Mary Quant

Only Obscene Ugliness

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities. Mary Quant

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. Mary Quant

Today Fashion Alive Part Frivolous Being

I have been on a diet since 1962. Mary Quant

Since Been Diet

London style is individual. Mary Quant

Style London Individual

Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. Mary Quant

Hair Changed Forever

When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion. Mary Quant

Fashion World First Carrying City Wearing Hats About Opened New Ideas Bowler Tightly New Ideas Still Were Shop

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. Mary Quant

Myself Seen Daughter Degrees Always Teachers Comparison Two

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966. Mary Quant

Design Complete One Thing Head Look Line Toe Thing Started

I don't have birthdays. Mary Quant

Birthdays

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. Mary Quant

Fashion Design One Thing Colour Stuff Adviser Am Still Working Thing

I have an awful lot of energy. Mary Quant

Energy Lot Awful Awful Lot

I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. Mary Quant

Work Think More Than Just Really Working Fun Imagine

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. Mary Quant

Wish Painting Drawing More Developed Always Loved

I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. Mary Quant

Life Work Time Space London My Time Divide Open Had Open Space Feel Between Particularly Chelsea Still Same Sixties Which Social Mud Social Life Village Swinging

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