Twiggy Quotes

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.

While wedged in the middle of a transparent rubber ring at a Dubai water park, I couldn't help but notice that I appeared to have grown my own rubber ring around my midriff.

A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.

I had to learn how to dress and create an optical illusion where you're more slender.

I've got a Moroccan shape, where the weight goes on around the belly and the bum.

Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?

Black illusion is all I ever see.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

White does not exist in nature.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.

My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.

Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

For some interesting reason, I also like a guy who has a littte bit of a belly. I think that's really cute.

My body shape was made to get into the perfect aerodynamic position.

Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.