Authors — Quotes

Karl Lagerfeld Quotes: 39

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
Stuff your brain with knowledge.
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her
I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?
Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.