Eileen Ford Quotes

It's not that I find it hard to meet girls - they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I'm interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

Of course, I always loved fashion - and I was always the tallest one and the skinniest one, so that helped.

I shoot swimsuits and lingerie all the time, so I want to make sure I'm in the best shape. It makes me want to work out harder than usual.

If one day I'm all black, I'm still a model. If one day I'm all white, I'm still a model.

The societal obsession with appearance is definitely something that weighs on your mind as a model.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.

We're shooting bathing suits down here in St. Barts of course, I do get extra self-conscious. But I'm still here. If there were really something wrong with me, then they wouldn't fly me over here to do this kind of thing - and they can use Photoshop and make me look nice.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

I like girls who have two eyes

In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look in photographs. To me, it's irrelevant, which I think is really shocking to people in the industry that I'm in, because it's like, "You should always look good", but I honestly don't care. It's not important to me.

Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym.