114 Quotes by Issey Miyake

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

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

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

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

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