Isabella Blow Quotes

If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

If you do want to wear you're heart on you're sleeve remember not to blow you're nose on it.

She had no time for anything humdrum, banal, or mundane - to the extent that the task of cleaning her desk at every night had to be done with a bottle of Perrier water and Chanel No. 5.

I'm not proud to admit I once owned a fringed cowgirl jacket.

Normally, all I'm interested in is what the person has created. Hopefully they're not a mass murderer or mass rapist, but their personality is not important to me at that stage. They've got to be pretty extraordinary to make things like that anyway.

She would not suffer fools; she could just find someone else.

They took they hit the cobblestone streets to look at churches, with Isabella wearing suede Manolos. "She's breaking her legs and I tell her it's just ridiculous and that she had to get some proper shoes." She bought and put on a pair of espadrilles and promptly broke into tears. "I can't. I can't. Everytime I look down on my feet I feel so depressed." Roberts said, "Well, are you going to be depressed or are you going to have a broken ankle?" "I am going to have a broken ankle" she said and she threw the shoes away.

And then your story turned into tragedy. I am sorry for that, Cassandra.' 'Oh no, not exactly, my dear,' Cassandra replied. 'Indeed, it was a terrible blow to lose your dear Uncle Tom. His death bright enormous distress to us all. Your poor grandmother never recovered. But I - Please do not think to have had a sad life, Isabella. After all, there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

One night she extemporised upon the broader risk that art might deaden resistance, by softening suffering’s blows through representing it.