Edie Sedgwick – Quotes

I think drugs are

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches. Edie Sedgwick

I came to New

I came to New York to see what I could see – that’s from a children’s book, isn’t it? – and to find the living part. Edie Sedgwick

I’m greedy; I’d like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I’d radiate sunshine. Edie Sedgwick

I think something very

I think something very weird’s going on now, ’cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power. Edie Sedgwick

I had fun, but

I had fun, but I didn’t really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come. Edie Sedgwick

I lived a very

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. Edie Sedgwick

I have an accident

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won’t be an accident! Edie Sedgwick

Fashion as a whole

Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling. Edie Sedgwick

Why do people stop

Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don’t change. They don’t develop. They … Read more

You care enough, that

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way…you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. Edie Sedgwick