Issey Miyake Quotes

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

The unknown is always interesting.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.