Marc Jacobs Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

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.

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.

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

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 believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

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.

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'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

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.

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

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

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

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

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.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

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

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

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

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.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

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

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

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

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!

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!

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

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

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

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