Quotes from Gloria Vanderbilt

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

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.

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.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

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.

I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

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.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

If you have health, you have everything.

In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.

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.

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

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

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

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

Everything in life is elusive.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.

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