I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come...
KARL LAGERFELD Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
KARL LAGERFELD I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
KARL LAGERFELD The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
KARL LAGERFELD The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
KARL LAGERFELD I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
KARL LAGERFELD Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
KARL LAGERFELD What I love best in life is new starts.
KARL LAGERFELD My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
KARL LAGERFELD I do my job like I breathe.
KARL LAGERFELD T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
KARL LAGERFELD Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
KARL LAGERFELD The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
KARL LAGERFELD I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, pe...
KARL LAGERFELD In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of f...
KARL LAGERFELD I'm totally myself.
KARL LAGERFELD I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
KARL LAGERFELD What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.
KARL LAGERFELD When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 ye...
KARL LAGERFELD I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
KARL LAGERFELD I'm a working-class person, working with class.
KARL LAGERFELD The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my...
KARL LAGERFELD Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
KARL LAGERFELD The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
KARL LAGERFELD I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
KARL LAGERFELD What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to rep...
KARL LAGERFELD Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
KARL LAGERFELD People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...
KARL LAGERFELD Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
KARL LAGERFELD Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you ca...
KARL LAGERFELD Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or Englis...
KARL LAGERFELD We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
KARL LAGERFELD Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody...
KARL LAGERFELD The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American D...
KARL LAGERFELD Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
KARL LAGERFELD One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
KARL LAGERFELD Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy t...
KARL LAGERFELD There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
KARL LAGERFELD Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
KARL LAGERFELD I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
KARL LAGERFELD I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not t...
KARL LAGERFELD Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
KARL LAGERFELD The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a ...
KARL LAGERFELD I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
KARL LAGERFELD Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be...
KARL LAGERFELD Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...
KARL LAGERFELD I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
KARL LAGERFELD Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exac...
KARL LAGERFELD We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst �...
KARL LAGERFELD Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
KARL LAGERFELD Music gives color to the air of the moment.
KARL LAGERFELD I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
KARL LAGERFELD The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashio...
KARL LAGERFELD There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France...
KARL LAGERFELD No one wants to see curvy women.
KARL LAGERFELD The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
KARL LAGERFELD I never touch sugar, cheese, bread...
I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptat...
KARL LAGERFELD I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change
KARL LAGERFELD Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
KARL LAGERFELD Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
KARL LAGERFELD I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
KARL LAGERFELD When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
KARL LAGERFELD Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
KARL LAGERFELD You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
KARL LAGERFELD I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
KARL LAGERFELD Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
KARL LAGERFELD The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...
KARL LAGERFELD Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making c...
KARL LAGERFELD I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
KARL LAGERFELD For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
KARL LAGERFELD Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
KARL LAGERFELD If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
KARL LAGERFELD Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get som...
KARL LAGERFELD I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early...
KARL LAGERFELD Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
KARL LAGERFELD Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
KARL LAGERFELD Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
KARL LAGERFELD Stuff your brain with knowledge.
KARL LAGERFELD Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own...
KARL LAGERFELD In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childis...
KARL LAGERFELD Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
KARL LAGERFELD I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
KARL LAGERFELD A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
KARL LAGERFELD No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, ...
KARL LAGERFELD The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
KARL LAGERFELD We started a shape and we have to continue it also in shoes, in jewelry in everything, because thing...
KARL LAGERFELD I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
KARL LAGERFELD I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad...
KARL LAGERFELD But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself...
KARL LAGERFELD I think it's great, ... It shows the product in a very elegant, beautiful way. My favorite [detail] ...
KARL LAGERFELD I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law i...
KARL LAGERFELD People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I ...
KARL LAGERFELD There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black c...
KARL LAGERFELD Personality begins where comparison ends.
KARL LAGERFELD I hate birthdays, ... It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I ...
KARL LAGERFELD It's quite interesting, those colors. Then there's purple. There's pale blues. There's lots of suede...
KARL LAGERFELD This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.
KARL LAGERFELD I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
KARL LAGERFELD [It was certainly a story of girl meets boy at Chanel.] This story is all about what would happen if...
KARL LAGERFELD There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divo...
KARL LAGERFELD kind of flesh colored leather stockings more than boots.
KARL LAGERFELD Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridicu...
KARL LAGERFELD Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jack...
KARL LAGERFELD Every coat is different and in every kind of material,
KARL LAGERFELD Maybe there's a little '70s touch, ... One has to find something,
KARL LAGERFELD It's all about feminine, fluid, bright colors for the prints. Lots of prints. It's very feminine in ...
KARL LAGERFELD Filming the girl was a really nasty trick,
KARL LAGERFELD There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is b...
KARL LAGERFELD Italian craftsmanship is really our treasure. So we're very proud of that and we try to do everythin...
KARL LAGERFELD (Shoes are) not that high, ... The shoes are in a matte metal nylon, old gold mesh with black rubber...
KARL LAGERFELD It's very soft, and it's all a little shiny,
KARL LAGERFELD It's all the delicate silver and gold jewelry; what is there like a thread. The earrings are just a ...
KARL LAGERFELD It's quite interesting, those colors. Then there's purple. There's pale blues. There's lots of suede...
KARL LAGERFELD I think it's great. It shows the product in a very elegant, beautiful way. My favorite [detail] is t...
KARL LAGERFELD I hate the notion of a second line. It's condescending and patronizing.
KARL LAGERFELD The girl is not selling her private life, but her image,
KARL LAGERFELD Work is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELD Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
KARL LAGERFELD The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piec...
KARL LAGERFELD Everything is about cut. But worse than couture cuts. The dresses from far away, you think that it i...
KARL LAGERFELD There is a sort of melancholia which I find quite elegant after the 'bimbo years'.
KARL LAGERFELD I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind...
KARL LAGERFELD I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
KARL LAGERFELD In the streets of Paris, you see more long dresses in the summer than you see in the winter, because...
KARL LAGERFELD It does not worry me personally - I like communication and visibility - but then I don't have to thi...
KARL LAGERFELD Because it's very clean, very impeccable but then it's all inspired by the legions and nobles of the...
KARL LAGERFELD I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
KARL LAGERFELD Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
KARL LAGERFELD Some have a little balloon touch, but you can always see through. So without being naked, you can se...
KARL LAGERFELD No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sl...
KARL LAGERFELD I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are n...
KARL LAGERFELD What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
KARL LAGERFELD When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you...
KARL LAGERFELD My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it ...
KARL LAGERFELD I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
KARL LAGERFELD What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young...
KARL LAGERFELD (Shoes are) not that high. The shoes are in a matte metal nylon, old gold mesh with black rubber hee...
KARL LAGERFELD I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly w...
KARL LAGERFELD If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
KARL LAGERFELD I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
KARL LAGERFELD I didn't play with other children.
KARL LAGERFELD My mother did not like children.
KARL LAGERFELD Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,...
KARL MARX The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ...
KARL MARX It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...
KARL MARX History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...
KARL MARX From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARX Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, ...
KARL MARX If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
KARL MARX The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
KARL MARX Democracy is the road to socialism.
KARL MARX Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
KARL MARX The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea...
KARL MARX Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
KARL MARX There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...
KARL MARX Religion is the opium of the masses.
KARL MARX The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...
KARL MARX A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
KARL MARX The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen...
KARL MARX Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
KARL MARX The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
KARL MARX Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
KARL MARX I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i...
KARL PILKINGTON With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads...
KARL PILKINGTON At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &...
KARL PILKINGTON It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
KARL PILKINGTON I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
KARL PILKINGTON I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
KARL PILKINGTON The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head s...
KARL PILKINGTON We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ...
KARL PILKINGTON But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
KARL PILKINGTON For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
KARL PILKINGTON Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou...
KARL PILKINGTON Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
KARL PILKINGTON A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
KARL PILKINGTON I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding...
KARL PILKINGTON People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was...
KARL PILKINGTON People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
KARL PILKINGTON They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just...
KARL PILKINGTON I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
KARL PILKINGTON The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX Statistics is the grammar of science.
KARL PEARSON But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ...
KARL ROVE You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha...
KARL ROVE Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
KARL ROVE The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio...
KARL ROVE Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def...
KARL ROVE In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Na...
KARL ROVE For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiven...
KARL ROVE Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
KARL ROVE Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the presi...
KARL ROVE I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ...
KARL ROVE I believe in traditional marriage.
KARL ROVE Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10...
KARL ROVE