I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea of embracing one's persona as a performance or art form.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote reflects the notion of identity as an artifice, suggesting that he enjoys exaggerating aspects of himself, akin to a caricature. By comparing himself to a mask and likening his life to a perpetual carnival, he highlights the playful and theatrical elements of his existence, suggesting that one can find joy and liberation in embracing different facets of their personality.
In practice
In a motivational speech about expressing individuality.
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.
Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.
The best stories come out of the truth.
I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.
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