109 Quotes by Gloria Vanderbilt

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

I lived in Europe until I was 9, really.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.