Christian Lacroix Quotes

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

I think I suffer from some mild depression.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

Not yet. But I've been regularly depressed every time I have a press conference.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

Everyone has their down days. Unfortunately, that's when I am the most prolific.

I think a certain amount of depression is sort of a normal state of mind to have. Deep depression is another story - and I wouldn't say I've been quite there, but you know I have been quite down at times, I have not wanted to leave the house for days on end.

I was depressed for a long time.

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.