Rei Kawakubo Quotes

Sometimes I am screwing around, and sometimes I get way too serious, but I am a pretty sincere person.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

I'm not about sound bites. I'm about substance.

We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the case.

I seek the substantial in life.

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Faith to me it’s believe without seeing, it’s how you live your life, how you are authentic.

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Don't be serious, be sincere.