Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

Some people would like me to be round again.

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

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

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

The way I talk is bizarre.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I do my job like I breathe.

Personally, I don't wear fur.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

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

No, I never thought I would like cats.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

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

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

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.

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.