Top 100 Marc Jacobs Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I love my life. I can’t believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name – like, that’s me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it’s still weird.”

— Marc Jacobs

52. “It’s sometimes said that I’m rebellious and I do things to push people’s buttons, but I just like the challenge.”

— Marc Jacobs

53. “I am a perfect being in a perfect world.”

— Marc Jacobs

54. “I’ve been openly gay since I can remember.”

— Marc Jacobs

55. “My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I’m on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.”

— Marc Jacobs

56. “Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It’s an impulse thing, like, ‘Oh, I love both so much, but it’s got to be one or the other because the two don’t work together.’”

— Marc Jacobs

57. “I think beauty is youth; it’s energy. I’m attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It’s kind of unexpected-what surprises you.”

— Marc Jacobs

58. “Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef’s coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.”

— Marc Jacobs

59. “I don’t want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That’s why I do it. No one’s forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It’s a real love affair.”

— Marc Jacobs

60. “My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, ‘My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.’”

— Marc Jacobs

61. “I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, ‘Marc Jacobs!’ in a French accent.”

— Marc Jacobs

62. “I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don’t want to look too on top of it, you know?”

— Marc Jacobs

63. “What’s worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up – and when I don’t believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.”

— Marc Jacobs

64. “Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.”

— Marc Jacobs

65. “For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.”

— Marc Jacobs

66. “Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.”

— Marc Jacobs

67. “I think it’s an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.”

— Marc Jacobs

68. “Basically, I’m in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don’t have a lot of scope, and I’m really picky about what I wear. Even if it’s weird, it’s very particular to me. And you can’t make a business out of what I would wear. We’d be out of business.”

— Marc Jacobs

69. “I’m not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.”

— Marc Jacobs

70. “I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.”

— Marc Jacobs

71. “I’m a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I’m not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!”

— Marc Jacobs

72. “I always say that I’m not the director, I’m part of the team.”

— Marc Jacobs

73. “I don’t believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I’m excited by style, not so much by fashion.”

— Marc Jacobs

74. “I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It’s so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they’re projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?”

— Marc Jacobs

75. “Yes, I always remember my dad’s, mom’s and my grandma’s perfumes.”

— Marc Jacobs

76. “Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I’m going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.”

— Marc Jacobs

77. “I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren’t that many people who I respect. There just aren’t.”

— Marc Jacobs

78. “When you design a dress you ask yourself, would woman like it or no. It’s much more of a creative process, not a research or trying to make somethings that sells or appeals. I hope that it will appeal to somebody, but it isn’t what drives me.”

— Marc Jacobs

79. “I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I’m recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it’s not as commonplace to be recognized.”

— Marc Jacobs

80. “I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.”

— Marc Jacobs

81. “It’s the things that aren’t accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.”

— Marc Jacobs

82. “I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they’re the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.”

— Marc Jacobs

83. “I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don’t ask many questions, I go where I am told to.”

— Marc Jacobs

84. “I love to design for women, it’s really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.”

— Marc Jacobs

85. “That was a time when I did love music, I couldn’t get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right – and non-commercial – had become so influential, so immediately.”

— Marc Jacobs

86. “I don’t find clothes sexy at all. I find people sexy.”

— Marc Jacobs

87. “I am really glad to be working at the profession that I love.”

— Marc Jacobs

88. “I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s raining or it’s snowing or whatever.”

— Marc Jacobs

89. “It’s quite nice to see that I didn’t have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.”

— Marc Jacobs

90. “One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don’t know what they want. They just know when they see it.”

— Marc Jacobs

91. “Art critics are like every other critic.”

— Marc Jacobs

92. “I think when I started to get in shape and spend time at the gym, I could be better to other people and be better to myself and get back to loving fashion and experience it myself. I started to wear kilts and lace dresses.”

— Marc Jacobs

93. “We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.”

— Marc Jacobs

94. “I’ve learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don’t think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is – I’ve learned technical skills and more about the craft.”

— Marc Jacobs

95. “Fashion is just something money can buy. People who are stylish are free and have no fear in staying true to themselves. Plus, style is infinitely more interesting.”

— Marc Jacobs

96. “As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they’d provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.”

— Marc Jacobs

97. “I don’t know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.”

— Marc Jacobs

98. “I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.”

— Marc Jacobs

99. “I said, ‘Okay, it’s the year 2000, I’m getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.’ I know how to check my e-mail, and I’ve listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can’t use it.”

— Marc Jacobs

100. “The attention toward me is basically because of what we’ve built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.”

— Marc Jacobs