I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Interpretation
Beauty is found in uniqueness and unconventionality rather than standard norms.
In this quote, Karl Lagerfeld expresses the idea that traditional or conventional forms of beauty are inadequate. He emphasizes that true beauty often emerges from individuality, uniqueness, and the quirks that deviate from the norm, suggesting that strangeness enhances beauty.
In practice
In a speech about creativity, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of embracing originality.
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.
I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.
The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
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