Issey Miyake Quotes

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

I've done so much travelling in the past few years, and when you travel, you realise that we do actually have a cool, clean look in Scandinavia - it's not just Denmark - which I think brings peace if you have it in your home.

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.

Sometimes I like to be more simple - simple colours, to be completely empty.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.