Rick Owens Quotes

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Rick Owens

Profession : Designer

Birth : November 18, 1961

I take a 1.5 hour nap every day without fail.

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I like dusty scents like patchouli, frankincense, and sandalwood.

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I always have longiflorum lilies in my proximity - I love them in bud with a sharp fresh scent, I love them at the full blast of their peak and I love them at their heady decadent decline.

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A nap is the most luxurious thing in the world.

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When it comes to responsibility, you've got to start somewhere - you've got to start small and gradually progress. You can't change the world overnight, but you can take a step in the right direction.

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Fundamentally, the world is not that sophisticated. A lot of it is very crude, cruel, and barbaric.

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Anything new is met with suspicion and has been throughout the entire history of time, but it's just evolution once you get into it. It's silly to choose to be afraid - you just have to explore, investigate, and figure out how to adapt.

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The pleasure of grace and beauty is one of life's greatest rewards and some people can provide that better than others.

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I always choke at calling fashion art. But as the fashion world gets more saturated and competitive, to stand out, you have to go to another level, a level that presses a lot of the same buttons that art does.

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The way you have decided to present yourself to others can telegraph your character, it can signal modesty, respect for others, a sense of order. Fashion can subtly communicate a set of value systems before you open your mouth.

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Fashion can be about escapism but I have always been interested in the aspirational side of it - wanting to present the self you hope eventually to become.

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I can't imagine having to choose clothes in the morning. It would drive me crazy.

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There are people that like contemporary art and people that like old art, and I like old art.

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Style isn't everything.

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I link what I do more to poetry usually because it sounds less lofty than a lot of other things.

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I want to be the Iggy Pop of fashion, I want to be the shirtless guy all the time.

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You can't escape who you fundamentally are.

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I'm conscious of apologising, because I think people apologise too much.

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There's a huge adolescent side to me that I can't grow out of.

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I'm very good at selfies.

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