Roberto Cavalli quotes:

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.

Today the world is a big jungle.

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

I love to spend money.

Normally, I never dress up.

Every woman inspires me.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.

I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event; men, the same tuxedo.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

I love you if you love me.

It is important to be chic.

I enjoy seeing people have fun.

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it!

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

I love being a fashion designer.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.

I learn much more by traveling by myself,

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

Israel is in my heart.

It's difficult to create fashion, you can't just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist,

Maybe I think too much.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.