The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
Interpretation
The quote expresses how creativity and inspiration can flow from the act of working, similar to how hunger can arise while eating.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote highlights the idea that true inspiration often comes during the process of creation or work rather than before it. He likens this burst of creativity to the sensation of hunger, suggesting that as one engages in their craft, they become more inspired and motivated, using this natural drive as their 'engine' to fuel their work.
In practice
Use this quote to inspire a team during a brainstorming session.
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.
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.
When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.
I'm very happy about 'Last Call At The Oasis.' I hope it's a wake up call... we caused the problem, but we can be the solution.
There are lives to brighten. There are hearts to touch. There are souls to save.
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.
I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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