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.
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.
And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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