Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

Here’s how to live: Value only what has endured.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime