Art Quote by Issey Miyake

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

— Issey Miyake

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

— Issey Miyake

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

Clothes should fit comfortably - not too tightly - so that you have space to move in and think freely.

— Issey Miyake

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to…

— Issey Miyake

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric -…

— Issey Miyake

I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine…

— Issey Miyake

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

— Issey Miyake

If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece…

— Issey Miyake

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

— Issey Miyake

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

— Issey Miyake

Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.

— Issey Miyake