Latest Daphne Guinness Quotes from Interviews

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• Eccentric is a difficult word because it's come to mean crazy. Avant-garde would be better. Eccentric is not "centric" in terms of having a center. Because sometimes it's used in a derogatory context.

  Daphne Guinness

  Crazy, Mean, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think now it's a very odd time in politics. It should be mostly about good governing. We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

  Daphne Guinness

  Past, Thinking, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

  Daphne Guinness

  Broken, Mathematics, Weak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. At the end of the Roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the Roman Empire. In the same way, the '60s were a reaction against the '50s and so on. But now we've been feeding on a sort of cadaver. At the moment, we're just endlessly recycling the past.

  Daphne Guinness

  Fashion, Moving, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really try to understand what people are saying and answer as honestly as I can. But sometimes it's like they try to tie you into knots. That's why I mostly steer clear of the popular press. I try not to read . . . Well, I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

  Daphne Guinness

  Book, People, Gossip

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm always reading many books at a time. It might be quite unorthodox, but what I do is, since I'm always surrounded with books, I'll read a page of physics, and then I'll read a chapter of a novel that I really love, and then I'll say, "Oh well, what does that mixture do in my head?" I adore reference books. I love encyclopedias. I also like just going back to original texts, because a lot of these self-help books today.

  Daphne Guinness

  Book, Reading, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com