111 Quotes by Yves Saint Laurent

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.