I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

My name is more important than myself.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Christ set my chains free.

There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts this much.

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.