Hedi Slimane Quotes

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

I'm a businessman, that's all.

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

You got to put the personal stuff away and see the business side of it.

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

I always preferred having wings to having things.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

I don't care about that. The Green Coat is enough for me.

I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.