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.