bien dans sa peau (comfortable in one’s skin)

prefer to paint first from the inside out, not from the outside in, as a means for aging with attitude.

As a class we are the happiest between sixty-five and seventy.

Being an adult is being grown up. And being grown up means losing some of life’s insecurities, like worrying too much about gravity.

I place myself in memory’s pictures. Indeed, looking at old photos, I am a time traveler, fooling time and living inside those photos in the present tense.

It is attitude. The psychological and emotional impact of state of mind has a huge impact on our “exteriors.”

because I was born French, I am often asked to share my tips on “aging gracefully,” an expression I don’t like. “Aging with attitude” is what I believe in.

In America, I live in a youth-obsessed culture and a results-oriented culture.

Just the way once we’ve learned to live with air-conditioning (87 percent of US households have it) and don’t look to the off switch but to more efficiency and a wiser use of climate controls, the people of the world are not going to turn off cosmetic surgery, something that is more than four thousand years old.