Dries van Noten Quotes

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!

I have so many pieces that once belonged to my mom and both of my grandmothers. All of these pieces are very sentimental, and I love to wear them. I also have many pieces from my father that I probably cherish the most. I love wearing his dress shirts.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

There's always something about home that's special.

I kept all of my tickets from the New Kids concerts and stuff - wristband, ticket, pass. Why? They are all in a drawer. I never look at it, but I still keep it. It sparks joy, that is why. It sparks joy. That is fine!

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.