Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

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

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

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

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

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

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

Dont sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much theres nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

The only love that I really believe in is a mothers love for her children.