The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
Interpretation
The quote expresses how creativity and inspiration can flow from the act of working, similar to how hunger can arise while eating.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote highlights the idea that true inspiration often comes during the process of creation or work rather than before it. He likens this burst of creativity to the sensation of hunger, suggesting that as one engages in their craft, they become more inspired and motivated, using this natural drive as their 'engine' to fuel their work.
In practice
Use this quote to inspire a team during a brainstorming session.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.
God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
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