Marc Jacobs Quotations | Page 2

I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.

The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.

You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it?

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'

I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

Fashion is just something money can buy. People who are stylish are free and have no fear in staying true to themselves. Plus, style is infinitely more interesting.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.

Happy, happy fashion. There is not much more to it than that.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

Sex is always good, isn't it? Well, actually it's not always good, but it's always a good thing.

I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

I like to make things. I like making choices, choosing colours, evoking a spirit, a change.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.

I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.

Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it.

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isn’t about being naked,

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.