Love Quote by Marc Jacobs

Jacobs turns creative decision-making into a confession: not the mythic bolt of inspiration, but a tug-of-war that ends when one side simply overpowers the other. The line is deceptively casual ("like..."), yet it describes a hard truth about taste: the most interesting choices often arrive as incompatibilities. Two "opposite directions" can both be thrilling, even right, but they create different worlds. Fashion, more than most arts, punishes indecision because a collection has to behave like a single atmosphere. You can’t sell a mood board; you sell a point of view.

The subtext is that coherence is not the enemy of complexity, it’s the price of entry. Jacobs isn’t romanticizing conflict for its own sake; he’s naming the moment when editing becomes ethics. Choosing the "stronger one" isn’t necessarily choosing the better idea in isolation, but the idea with more gravitational pull - the one that can organize everything else around it. That’s why the language of impulse matters. In a culture that treats brand identity as a kind of personal identity, Jacobs admits that the final call can be irrational, bodily, almost involuntary.

Contextually, it reads like the philosophy behind his career-long oscillations: high and low, grunge and polish, camp and severity. The quote is a quiet defense of contradiction as a resource, while still insisting that the work must land somewhere. Creativity, he suggests, isn’t having multiple options; it’s surviving the loss of one.