Alexander McQueen Quotes

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great.

I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

At the end of the day, our work is what endures.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

The goal was to have matches that would stand the test of time.