Art Quotes

Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.

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"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
Ralph Lauren
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"Fashion is about dressing people for the lives they want, not the lives they have."
Ralph Lauren
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"The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be."
Ralph Lauren
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"I believe in creating timeless pieces."
Ralph Lauren
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"I wanted to celebrate the beauty of American culture."
Ralph Lauren
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"Style is a language that everyone understands."
Ralph Lauren
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"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"The best fashion show is definitely on the street always has been and always will be."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"Elegance is refusal."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"The difference between an ordinary person and a fashionable person is not the clothes they wear, but how they wear them."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"Art and design are not about decoration. They are about communication."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"The essence of style is simplicity. It is not meant to be noticed."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"A real designer works from the soul, not from the trend."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"I am not interested in clothes as something for the body. I am interested in clothes as an architectural structure."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"Fashion is not about covering the body. It is about expressing the soul."
Karl Lagerfeld
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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
Giorgio Armani
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"I dress for the image. Not for the image, but for theess."
Giorgio Armani
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"A good designer solves problems with elegance."
Giorgio Armani
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"Fashion is a dialogue between designer and wearer."
Giorgio Armani
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"Fashion is a form of communication without words."
Giorgio Armani
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"Fashion is where art, commerce, and human expression meet."
Giorgio Armani
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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most perfect thing."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"The key to style is to have a clear vision of who you are and what you want to express."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"Art is the expression of the deepest truths we can only whisper."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"The most important seam is the one that connects style to character."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"I believe in dressing the body, not just covering it."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"The marriage of line and color creates poetry in fabric."
Yves Saint Laurent
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"The fabric speaks; we must listen with our hearts."
Yves Saint Laurent