“When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.”

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

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

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

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

The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.

Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

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.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

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

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.

Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?