Joan Smalls for Harper’s Bazaar Arabia March 2018
“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.” ― Horace
“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.” ― Horace
“Glamour is a beautiful illusion – the word ‘glamour’ originally meant a literal magic spell – that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real.” Virginia Postrel
“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“You can cut all the flowers but you can not keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.” —Diana Vreeland
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.” Thomas Szasz
“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.” E. B. White
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” Maya Angelou
“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.” ― Konstantin Stanislavski, My Life In Art
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty.” Oscar Wilde