Alexander McQueen - Best Quotes

There is something sinister something quite biographical about what I do – but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance melancholy. There's a sadness to it but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Beauty

I find beauty in the grotesque like most artists.

Alexander McQueen

I find beauty in the grotesque like most artists.

Age

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Alexander McQueen

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Author: Alexander McQueen

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are but the music isn't.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back moaning that it's late.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

Now I design what I want to wear and it works that way.

There is something sinister something quite biographical about what I do – but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance melancholy. There's a sadness to it but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

I find beauty in the grotesque like most artists.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.