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I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
- Mary Quant
#Drawing
#I Wish
#Loved
#Painting
#Wish
As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
- Mary Quant
#Being
#Genius
#Influence
#Sixties
#Well
The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.
- Mary Quant
#1950s
#End
#Flower
#Marvelous
#Power
Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.
- Mary Quant
#Chanel
#I Can
#Me
#Understand
#Why
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
#Life
#Me
#People
#Ten Years
#War
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
- Mary Quant
#Black
#City
#Fabrics
#Shoes
#Tights
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
- Mary Quant
#More
#Only
#People
#See
#Sense
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.
- Mary Quant
#Christmas
#Lunch
#Morning
#September
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
- Mary Quant
#Anything
#Day
#Fabric
#New
#One Day
I have an awful lot of energy.
- Mary Quant
#Awful Lot
#Awful
#Energy
#Lot
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
- Mary Quant
#Being
#Fun
#Money
#More
#Rather
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
- Mary Quant
#Confidence
#High
#Memories
#Optimism
I have been on a diet since 1962.
- Mary Quant
#Been
#Diet
#Since
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
- Mary Quant
#People
#Powerful
#Reaction
#Were
#Who
As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
- Mary Quant
#Boat
#Catch
#Child
#Spend
#Summer
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
#King
#Men
#Most Beautiful
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
- Mary Quant
#Because
#Bus
#Catch
#Short
#Work
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
- Mary Quant
#Death
#Good Taste
#Good
#Life
#Taste
Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
- Mary Quant
#Always
#Chance
#Important
#Life
#Risks
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
- Mary Quant
#Better
#Fashion
#Home
#Life
#People
#Person
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
- Mary Quant
#Clothes
#Her
#Wear
#Wears
#Woman
A woman is as young as her knees.
- Mary Quant
#Her
#Knees
#Woman
#Young
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
#Amazing
#Beautiful
#Eyes
#Live
#Love
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