Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.
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I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.
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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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It's up to you to make every day as perfect as possible - it's a question of will and discipline.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.
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Truth is only a question of point of view.
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I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
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Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.
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I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.
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I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.
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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.
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People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.