Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."

"Don't dress to kill, dress to survive."

"I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!"

"No one wants to see curvy women."

"I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching."

"You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future."

"Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work."

"Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means."

"I'm a working-class person, working with class."

"I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris."

"What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before."

"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time."

"I admire people who destroy themselves."

"I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way."

"I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know."

"I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading."

"If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it."

"I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time."

"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."

"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."

"I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct."

"It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter."

"Work is making a living out of being bored."

"I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school."

"Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness."

"I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more."

"I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it."

"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."

"No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things."

"I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it."