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’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
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better. – 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
I can’t bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn’t grab me. I don’t think she’s interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter. – 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
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
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. – Gloria Vanderbilt
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. – Gloria Vanderbilt
Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don’t know what’s going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she’s walking over. It just amused me. – Gloria Vanderbilt
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written. – 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
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. – 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. – Gloria Vanderbilt
I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success. – Gloria Vanderbilt
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. – 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
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 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
