[There are] so many things I've learned, and I'm still learning, actually.

Let's try to bring more style into basics, and let's touch real people all around the world, people who don't really care who Christophe Lemaire is.

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

It's true that I've made mistakes, but I know I shouldn't do them again.

I'm interested in the poetry of reality.

I'm interested in the intimate relationships we can have with those good clothes that we may have in our closets.

Through designing clothes, I try to bring solutions to people, and I'm interested in the everyday relationship we have to clothes.

I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want.

This is what I've always been interested in, trying to make timeless, functional, real clothes.

Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer.

For me, the fashion show, the image, the shooting, is just a step. It's just a moment, but it's not the final destination.

A translation is no translation, ’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.