I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea of embracing one's persona as a performance or art form.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote reflects the notion of identity as an artifice, suggesting that he enjoys exaggerating aspects of himself, akin to a caricature. By comparing himself to a mask and likening his life to a perpetual carnival, he highlights the playful and theatrical elements of his existence, suggesting that one can find joy and liberation in embracing different facets of their personality.
In practice
In a motivational speech about expressing individuality.
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.
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
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