Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
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I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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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.
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Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
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People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
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I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.
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I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane
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Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.
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I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
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I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
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You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
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Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.
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Black, like white, is the best color!
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.
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When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.