Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. Karl Lagerfeld More Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld More Quotes From Karl Lagerfeld These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women. Karl Lagerfeld bags fashion dream I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo. Karl Lagerfeld size bones thinking I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. Karl Lagerfeld cartoon artist ideas I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. Karl Lagerfeld self teacher school I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot. Karl Lagerfeld artist teacher school Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that. Karl Lagerfeld difficult-work clothes cutting Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person. Karl Lagerfeld hate children people Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad. Karl Lagerfeld girl beautiful thinking Beauty with character ages better than perfection. Karl Lagerfeld perfection age character I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people. Karl Lagerfeld vampire blood people Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive. Karl Lagerfeld fur murder expensive Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time. Karl Lagerfeld epoch taste beauty We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis. Karl Lagerfeld toilets islands thinking Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way. Karl Lagerfeld hate dream morning I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt. Karl Lagerfeld scene I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it. Karl Lagerfeld three personality looks The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. Karl Lagerfeld amusement pieces kind I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now. Karl Lagerfeld fancy paris house You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.' Karl Lagerfeld fighting expression ideas They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted. Karl Lagerfeld glasses dog cute