Karl Lagerfeld Thinking Quotations

I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people

Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

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 always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

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

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

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.

Normal people think I'm insane.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Think pink, but don't wear it.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.