“Chanel gave women freedom. Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) gave them power.” — Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I'm not an ascetic and please don't use the word zen, which is so lightly bandied about these days. Being zen .… — Pierre Berge Environment Copy Share Image
Loving dogs is a question of anthropomorphism. We become attached to dogs because of the feelings we project on them. — Pierre Berge Dog Copy Share Image
Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went… — Pierre Berge Art Copy Share Image
I hate sentiment when it's inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an… — Pierre Berge Hate Copy Share Image
I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it… — Pierre Berge Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking… — Pierre Berge Abandon Copy Share Image
I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's… — Pierre Berge Apartment Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Art Copy Share Image
I am a man who has spent more than half a century ostensibly and visibly accompanying Yves Saint Laurent throughout his life… — Pierre Berge Artist Copy Share Image
On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion… — Pierre Berge Admiration Copy Share Image
You don't own art. What does that mean? We are trustees of art. Art is in transit with us. That is why… — Pierre Berge Art Copy Share Image
At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both… — Pierre Berge Age Copy Share Image
A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't. — Pierre Berge Dinner party Copy Share Image
Geographically speaking, I was born on a French island - the île d'Oléron. Otherwise, I come from a milieu where culture was… — Pierre Berge Book Copy Share Image
I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all. — Pierre Berge History Copy Share Image
I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't… — Pierre Berge Art Copy Share Image
There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves… — Pierre Berge Morning Copy Share Image
When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being… — Pierre Berge Fashion Copy Share Image
Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I… — Pierre Berge Love Copy Share Image
I never abandoned Yves Saint Laurent. I used to have lunch with him twice a week. I also saw him every Saturday.… — Pierre Berge Abandoned Copy Share Image
You don't spend every day saying, "Gosh! That's so beautiful." Sometimes you look at an object more attentively and see it anew.… — Pierre Berge Art Copy Share Image
