Amanda Harlech Quotes

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible ... I think I am part of that.

Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

I think I am really easygoing. Well ... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.

I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.