Absurdity Quote by Karl Lagerfeld Download Open image “Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.” — Karl Lagerfeld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Creative Creative energy Creativity Duality Energy Existentialism Fashion designer Style Two
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. — Andy Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
