Issey Miyake Quotes

If my life and music brings a smile or makes a difference in any individual's life, then there is nothing beyond for me as a god's gift.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

I have to be creative to be happy.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

People's lives do not have to be drab and dreary and wrapped in old newspapers. The deserve something for the soul and noble visions.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.

Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.