Daphne Guinness Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.”

“Oh, I love tea. I have to take tea bags wherever I go.”

“I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.”

“I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again - and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but I don't really think about it too much.”

“My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it's ever evolving. Generally I'm drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.”

“Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.”

“I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.”

“My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.”

“Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?”

“I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.”