Elsa Peretti Quotes

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

~ Elsa Peretti

Big Diamond Long Long Time Necklace People Really Such Things Things Time Wealth Wear Who

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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.

~ Elsa Peretti

Conservation Designers Furniture Future Hope Less Lot Necessary Nostalgia Past Real Still Use Wood

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Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.

~ Elsa Peretti

Bird Incredible Like Nothing Them Value

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

~ Elsa Peretti

Big Effort Me Mentally Museum Physically Put Together

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Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.

~ Elsa Peretti

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I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

~ Elsa Peretti

Always Erase I Can Pencil Write

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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.

~ Elsa Peretti

Am Awful Bull Else I Am Like Neck Nothing Pain Something Still Taurus Will

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I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.

~ Elsa Peretti

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I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.

~ Elsa Peretti

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I can't copy nature.

~ Elsa Peretti

Copy Nature

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I design for the working girl.

~ Elsa Peretti

Design Girl Working

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I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.

~ Elsa Peretti

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

~ Elsa Peretti

Hate Impeccable Look Matched Perfect Perfectly

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I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

~ Elsa Peretti

Better Did Doing Hated Jewelry Model Modeling Scared Soon Started

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I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.

~ Elsa Peretti

Dye Gray Hair Keep Like Platinum Silver Want Wear Whatever Who Women

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I like to do things that are classic.

~ Elsa Peretti

Classic Like Things

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

~ Elsa Peretti

Achieve Always Certain Degree Detail Eliminate Excess High Like Myself Purity Push Quality Want

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I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

~ Elsa Peretti

English Like Strong Tea Very Yorkshire

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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.

~ Elsa Peretti

Baby Became Because Began Designer Exactly Exactly What How Ideas Jewelry Knew Myself Pencil Sketch Something Wanted Wear

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

~ Elsa Peretti

Be A Man Get Get Married His Like Man Married Me Must Part Who Work Would

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