Design is not for philosophy it's for life. — Issey Miyake

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. — Issey Miyake
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. — Issey Miyake
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. — Issey Miyake