Quotes from Jean Paul Gaultier

People are so codified - it's sad.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

People are so codified - it's sad.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

My eccentricity became direction.

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.