Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

People are so codified - it's sad.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

I will stay in my bed!

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.

To conform is to give in.

I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

In France, history is paralyzing.