Joan Smalls for Harper’s Bazaar Arabia March 2018
āBegin, be bold, and venture to be wise.ā ā Horace
āBegin, be bold, and venture to be wise.ā ā 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
āAnyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.ā Truman Capote,Ā Breakfast at Tiffany’s Ā
“You can cut all the flowers but you can not keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.” āDiana 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
āLove art in yourself, and not yourself in art.ā āĀ Konstantin Stanislavski,Ā My Life In Art
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty.” Oscar Wilde