"Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as……" — Issey Miyake

"Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you."

— Issey Miyake

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22 Quotes by Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
I very much like dance and dancers.
I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing…
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
I have worked with several dance companies.
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can…
One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started…
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like…
From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I…
The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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