Gloria Vanderbilt

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. ”

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself. ”

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father. ”

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic. ”

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. ”

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty. ”

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside. ”

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. ”

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does. ”

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside. ”