“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
F160
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
O interview (2003)
Context: Yes, I'm beautiful … I am beautiful and famous — and yet the things I like about myself have nothing to do with that, because I don't use wealth and beauty to define myself. People think I'm more beautiful than I am because they see me on magazine covers — but go to nearly any town, and you'd find prettier women. And though I'm well known now, I might not be famous one day —but I'd still be happy. I do have money, but I could be richer. I just don't want to pay the price some are willing to pay to have more money. I live in a small house. I'm not the glamour girl who wears makeup every day. I live a wonderful life, and I lack for nothing. Maybe that does make it easier for me to say, "Be who you are" — but I always tell people they shouldn't be too impressed with wealth and fame. They shouldn't worship it. I am in this machine, but I haven't completely given my soul to it.
“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”
"The Perils of Being Pauline," interview with Francis Davis, The New Yorker (October 2001).
Interviews
