Manolo Blahnik - Best Quotes

Travel

I hate to travel with stuff.

Nature

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling – 'Oh blah blah blah I'm wearing Hermes blah blah blah I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' – because it's like a need a tribe recognition: 'Ahh my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable – it's my nature.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling – 'Oh blah blah blah I'm wearing Hermes blah blah blah I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' – because it's like a need a tribe recognition: 'Ahh my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable – it's my nature.

Famous

I never wanted to be the most famous the most beautiful the most extravagant.

Manolo Blahnik

I never wanted to be the most famous the most beautiful the most extravagant.

Experience

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well I did in the 1970s but that was a bad experience.

Manolo Blahnik

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well I did in the 1970s but that was a bad experience.

Design

About half my designs are controlled fantasy 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Manolo Blahnik

About half my designs are controlled fantasy 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Death

I just don't get death at all. Yes it's there. But I don't get it.

Manolo Blahnik

I just don't get death at all. Yes it's there. But I don't get it.

Change

If I was a woman I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes I see what you mean but really it's jewels that change an outfit.

Manolo Blahnik

If I was a woman I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes I see what you mean but really it's jewels that change an outfit.

Change

You put high heels on and you change.

Manolo Blahnik

You put high heels on and you change.

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.

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.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

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

Author: Manolo Blahnik

I hate to travel with stuff.

I never wanted to be the most famous the most beautiful the most extravagant.

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well I did in the 1970s but that was a bad experience.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

I just don't get death at all. Yes it's there. But I don't get it.

If I was a woman I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes I see what you mean but really it's jewels that change an outfit.

You put high heels on and you change.