Joe Gebbia Quotes

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

I want to be different, and fashion gives me that outlet to do that.

People in the beauty community don't like copycats, so I think it's important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.

It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.

I only do what I do. For me, it is a craft. It's got to be my own thing - otherwise, I would never be successful. I could easily go to the archives and pull 1987 or 1991 collection by Calvin Klein. But when you look in there, you realize that it was never about one piece. It was about the collections as bodies of work.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.