Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld

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

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

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

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

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

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

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

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes, it's about all kinds of change

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

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

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

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.