Karl Lagerfeld

"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."

"Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive"

"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."

"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability"

"When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop."

"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul"

"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."

"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine"

"We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both."

"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."

"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul"

"Stuff your brain with knowledge."

"I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon."

"Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently"

"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."

"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 live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

"The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration."

"I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern."

"Stuff your brain with knowledge."