Quote Archive

An ever-evolving catalog of my favorite quotations

Art + Design

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent van Gogh

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." - Vincent van Gogh

"When I haven't any blue, I use red." - Pablo Picasso

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso

"If you are willing to do something that might not work, you're closer to being an artist." - Seth Godin

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keefe

"Good design is forever." - Van Day Treux

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." - Claude Monet

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -Leonardo DaVinci

"Suitability, simplicity, and proportion." -Elsie de Wolfe

Beauty

"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life." -Elsie de Wolfe

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within." - Maya Angelou

"A woman that doesn't wear perfume has no future." - Coco Chanel

"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." -Gwyneth Paltrow

"Put on your lipstick and pull yourself together." - Elizabeth Taylor

Entertaining

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness." -Elsa Schiaparelli

"Tea to the english is really a picnic indoors." - Alice Walker

"I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before." -Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." - Ogden Nash

"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." - W.C. Fields

Faith

Return to the Lord your God for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger & abounding in steadfast love. -Joel 2:13

"I want to be a woman who overcomes obstacles by tackling them in faith, instead of tiptoeing around them in fear." - Renee Swope

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. - Colossians 3:12

Friendship

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." - Anäis Nin

"Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered." - Wes Angelozzi

"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is even if we are apart, I'll always be with you." - Winnie the Pooh

"You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head... but I'll tell you a secret... all of the best people are." - Alice in Wonderland

"Celebrate people who celebrate you." - Cara Alwill Leyba 

Inspiration

"Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink." - Lilly Pulitzer

Life

"Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Of this be sure: you do not find the happy life... you make it." - Thomas S. Manson

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." - Georgia O'Keefe

LOVE

"I fell there is nothing more artistic than loving people." - Vincent van Gogh

"I've decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A woman happily in love, burns the soufflé. A woman unhappily in love, forgets to turn on the oven." -Sabrina

"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love. And I don't think that love is here in this expensive suite in this lovely hotel in Paris." - Carrie Bradshaw

"I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it." - Audrey Hepburn

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss

Travel

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us." - unknown

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself." - David Mitchell

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Lao Tzu