People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
Interpretation
Creativity often requires solitude for rejuvenation and inspiration.
In this quote, Karl Lagerfeld emphasizes the necessity of solitude for individuals in creative fields. He suggests that constant exposure or being in the spotlight can drain creativity, and to truly unleash one's creative potential, one must take time alone to recharge and reflect. This solitude is presented not as a loneliness but as a form of victory, highlighting its importance for the creative process.
In practice
During a talk on artistic processes, one might quote Lagerfeld to highlight the importance of solitude for inspiration.
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.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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