Jean Paul Gaultier quote: "The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic."

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women do...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything i...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition,...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

If there is somebody we're interested in we might place a phone call and send them a look book.
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

I think that the collection is very much sophisticated and very woman. It's elegant, not at all spor...
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

We have to celebrate the end of the millennium with 'brio.
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

(It's) like a Parisian punkette. You know, originally the punk (were) English so it's the French ver...
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

It is beautiful to be what you are.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

Always my collections are made of different influences.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the year...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

People are so codified - it's sad.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way,...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

Fashion is not art. Never.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes ...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

She was the first punk woman.
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

(But) for women, you put it on as a dress, so you have to put your leg in it. That's it, ... And the...
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

It's very free. My cubes are in crepe and in fabrics that move.
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL

The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL

The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL

Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL

Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL

In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL

Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL

Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
JEAN PAUL

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
JEAN PAUL

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. ...
JEAN PAUL

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
JEAN PAUL

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
JEAN PAUL

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
JEAN PAUL

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed...
JEAN PAUL

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
JEAN PAUL

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
JEAN PAUL

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot...
JEAN PAUL

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
JEAN PAUL

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt...
JEAN PAUL

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
JEAN PAUL

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
JEAN PAUL

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason...
JEAN PAUL

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
JEAN PAUL

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
JEAN PAUL

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
JEAN PAUL

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it...
JEAN PAUL

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
JEAN PAUL

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
JEAN PAUL

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the stor...
JEAN PAUL

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, bu...
JEAN PAUL

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the d...
JEAN PAUL

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
JEAN PAUL

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly con...
JEAN PAUL

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the fir...
JEAN PAUL

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано з...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, bu...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO

Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly con...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the d...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The existentialist
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the fir...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTE

Hell is—other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
JEAN-PAUL KAUFFMANN

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy i...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Weaklings must lie.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.
JEAN-PAUL VADNAIS

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or i...
JEAN PAUL GETTY

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter un...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always loo...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugel...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

A sky full of silent suns.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jema...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Versch...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Pa...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

We do not judge the people we love
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste H...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

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Jean Paul Gaultier

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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