Issey Miyake Quotes

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I'm ready to create.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

I love being creative in all forms.