Rosso Quotes

#1. Diesel is the only example of a casualwear or sportswear company that became a luxury brand.

Renzo Rosso

#2. In fashion, I think I make mistakes every day.

Renzo Rosso

#3. I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Renzo Rosso

#4. When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.

Renzo Rosso

#5. When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.

Renzo Rosso

#6. We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

Joseph Bruchac

#7. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.

Renzo Rosso

#8. The Diesel team has incredible passion. We work for ourselves and design for ourselves. When I see a new watch in our collection, I go crazy. I want one of everything.

Renzo Rosso

#9. We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.

Renzo Rosso

#10. America you are beautiful ... and blessed ... The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.

Pope John Paul II

#11. Different times call for different attitudes. But I love your generation because you are so creative and innovative in how you wear things, how you think, how you approach everything.

Renzo Rosso

#12. Sometimes you don't have the time to prepare yourself for looking good in front of the mirror with what you're wearing. And then when you go to work or go out, you don't like it. I spend a lot of time preparing.

Renzo Rosso

#13. Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

Renzo Rosso

#14. Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.

Renzo Rosso

#16. It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician wears when they first start their career, when they are young and wild, to how they dress when they become famous and more polished.

Renzo Rosso

#17. What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder ...

Medardo Rosso

#18. When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

Pablo Picasso

#19. We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.

Renzo Rosso

#20. Save those thoughts for when we're alone," Morrow whispered. "Next time I get you in the dark, it isn't going to be in a hive surrounded by Dusk Warriors and chased by a Nightfighter neutralizer."

"Going to hold you to that, Sergeant."

"Never going to let go.

Nico Rosso

#21. We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed.

Renzo Rosso

#22. We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.

Renzo Rosso

#23. When it comes to prospecting, it's up to you to be yourself.

John Rosso

#24. The real product at Diesel is satisfaction. My satisfaction at Diesel is being a pioneer.

Renzo Rosso

#25. I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

Renzo Rosso

#26. First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

Edmund White

#27. In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.

Renzo Rosso

#28. What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must ... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.

Medardo Rosso

#29. I want to take time for myself, because all my life is ta-ta-ta-ta. So I don't want nothing special, just to breathe. I'd like to work maybe a half day and then take my bicycle and go by the riverside.

Renzo Rosso

#30. You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Jorge Ramos

#31. Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.

Tom Robbins

#32. When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing ...

Ang Lee

#33. In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.

Renzo Rosso

#34. Watching the rain is as beautiful as watching the sunset or the sunrise and it is even better because in addition to watching you can also listen to it, the fantastic music of the drop sounds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

Ignatius Of Loyola