Isaac Mizrahi Quotes

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.

You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it-that's the thing.

I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.

What you do, you don't think of as a product

I'm so involved in melancholy.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

I have a lot of obligations.

I don't want to offend people.

The moon is such a planet, I can’t even stand it. What else is it if it’s not a planet?

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.