Quotes by Gloria Vanderbilt

About Gloria Vanderbilt:

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is an American artist, author, actress, heiress and socialite, noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. She is a member of the Vanderbilt family of New York and the mother of CNN television anchor Anderson Cooper.
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I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

Gloria Vanderbilt

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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

Gloria Vanderbilt

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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.

Gloria Vanderbilt

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

Gloria Vanderbilt

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Everything in life is elusive.

Gloria Vanderbilt

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

Gloria Vanderbilt

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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

Gloria Vanderbilt

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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

Gloria Vanderbilt

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

Gloria Vanderbilt

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

Gloria Vanderbilt

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.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Author Bio

  • NameGloria Vanderbilt
  • DescriptionAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer
  • BornFebruary 20, 1924
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Novelist; Writer; Autobiographer; Painter; Businessperson