Jean Paul Gaultier quotes
Art quotes search by Author:

Join thousands of others and get the twice-weekly art letter.
Subscription is free.

Absolutely free, no strings. Sign up to the twice-weekly letter and join our art community.

art quotes

Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes



Quotes by Jean Paul Gaultier - (37 quotes)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Ability category:

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no! (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Aging category:

I will stay in my bed! (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Beauty category:

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Character category:

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Children category:

I was lucky to have parents who loved me. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Children category:

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Communication category:

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating because I was always so shy. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Design category:

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Drawing category:

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Dreams category:

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Eccentricity category:

My eccentricity became direction. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Ego category:

It is beautiful to be what you are. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Ego category:

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Energy category:

When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Fashion category:

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Fashion category:

Fashion is not art. Never. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Gender category:

In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Gender category:

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Gender category:

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Individuality category:

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Influence category:

Always my collections are made of different influences. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Interest category:

If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Jealousy category:

- on Madonna...
I said later, if she hadn't asked me to make clothes for her, I would've killed the one that she did ask. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Life category:

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Love category:

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Love category:

I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Money category:

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Money category:

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Pets category:

Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried! (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Possibilities category:

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Renewal category:

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Repetition category:

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Revelation category:

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Rules category:

People are so codified - it's sad. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Shock category:

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Shock category:

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic. (Jean Paul Gaultier)

Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Unknowns category:

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see. (Jean Paul Gaultier)