Rei Kawakubo Quotes

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

Diversity of form factor matters, and not compromising either form factor. You need diversity of price point. That's quite important.

A car for every purse and purpose.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

People want variety and something that is affordable.

Life mixes tones all the time.

When you have variety, you have freedom.

You don't have to make things which are just expensive.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.