Amanda Harlech Quotes & Sayings

“At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.”

“I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.”

“I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.”

“You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.”

“As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!”

“Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.”

“I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.”

“I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.”

“I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.”

“My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.”