Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

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.

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

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

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

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

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

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

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.

Work for money, design for love.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

Humility is the secret of the wise.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.