Top 50 Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

2. “Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

3. “It is beautiful to be what you are.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

4. “There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

5. “It’s always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

6. “What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

7. “When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

8. “In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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9. “People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

10. “My best experiences with movies have come when I didn’t know what to see.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

11. “In France, history is paralyzing.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

12. “You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

13. “I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

14. “What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

15. “I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

16. “The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

17. “I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

18. “Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

19. “Fashion is not art. Never.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

20. “I was lucky to have parents who loved me.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

21. “When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn’t have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

22. “I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

23. “The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don’t really dress; they are too conservative, as it’s always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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24. “Do you know that cats can’t wear corsets? They can’t stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

25. “People are so codified – it’s sad.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

26. “I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

27. “My eccentricity became direction.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

28. “I don’t know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

29. “I will stay in my bed!”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

30. “All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

31. “I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

32. “Designers are to be in connection with what’s happening with the movement of society.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

33. “To conform is to give in.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

34. “Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

35. “People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

36. “I’m still astounded by some people’s reaction to things I consider quite normal.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

37. “Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

38. “I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

39. “My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

40. “To show the relativity of what’s good taste and what’s not is something I like to play with.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

41. “Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

42. “I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it’s like a party.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

43. “I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

44. “Always my collections are made of different influences.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

45. “My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

46. “When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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47. “I was fascinated by movies from age 12.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

48. “The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

49. “Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier

50. “Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn’t so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.”

— Jean Paul Gaultier