Hattie Carnegie quotes

Taste is so much more important than fashion.
-- Hattie Carnegie

#Fashion #Important #Taste

I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.
-- Hattie Carnegie

#Thinking #Ladders #Climbs

We have the loveliest women in the world in this county and wherever there are beautiful women there will be beautiful clothes. To show the American woman herself off to best advantage-that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
-- Hattie Carnegie

#Beautiful #Real #Clothes

My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.
-- Hattie Carnegie

#Moving #Simple #Clothes

By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

The search is more important than the destination

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.