Issey Miyake Quotes

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

Technology is just a means. It's not the end.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

There's a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I've certainly become more and more aware of that.

I believe technology serves us best when it gives us more time to do things that are uniquely human. This includes activities that are enjoyable, creative, and productive.