Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.

The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)

I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different choices with me, I always end up wearing a tank top, jeans and sneakers.