Elsa Peretti Quotes

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.

I design for the working girl.

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.

I like to do things that are classic.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.

In the '80s, everything became too serious.

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

I can't copy nature.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.

All my work comes out of my life.

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.