Issey Miyake Quotes

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

Coming out of a group, it's always really fun and creative to do your own thing.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I invented myself.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

It's cool to be able to give each other that space to really explore ourselves individually and grow.