Top 184 Quotes & Sayings by Marc Jacobs - Page 3

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

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!

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.

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

I don’t throw cell phones. I don’t hurt people, I only hurt myself.

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

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.

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

When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were unique, who all had idiosyncrasies and characteristics that made them individual. Those girls stuck around; you'd work with them season after season. But now it's completely different.

When I started working, the big models were people like Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. It was a time when there were models who had real personalities and individuality.

I don't find clothes sexy at all. I find people sexy.

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

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.

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

I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.

I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that.

The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don't think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn't great by definition. It's just popular.

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

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

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isn't about being naked.

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

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.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

You don`t have the same reaction to a girl walking around the street today in a nightgown and a vintage coat and sneakers, that you did six years ago.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

It's so weird how scary it is at the beginning of rehab, and then you bond with the people, and it's really an amazing experience. It is impossible to do it on your own, and it's good to ask for help when we need it.

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

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

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

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

Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.

The attention toward me is basically because of what we've built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.

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.

I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.

Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.

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

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.

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

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

My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

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. That's what a sellout is to me.

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.

Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

I create the concept, which for me is about deciding upon the right girl and the right 'spirit', and thinking of all the things that visually describe her. It's just like putting together a fashion show; for me, that starts with the spirit and the girls as well.

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.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

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

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

Art critics are like every other critic.

When you design a dress you ask yourself, would woman like it or no. It's much more of a creative process, not a research or trying to make somethings that sells or appeals. I hope that it will appeal to somebody, but it isn't what drives me.