Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

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.

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.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

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.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Never use the word "cheap". Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it's up to you.

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

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

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

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

I'm very much down to earth, just not this earth.

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

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

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

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

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

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

I like to reinvent myself — it's part of my job.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.