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Leonard Koren



Average rating: 3.97 · 9,438 ratings · 799 reviews · 34 distinct worksSimilar authors
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Des...

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Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts

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Graphic Design Cookbook: Mi...

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What Artists Do

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Which "Aesthetics" Do You M...

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How to Take a Japanese Bath

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Arranging Things: A Rhetori...

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Undesigning the Bath

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On Creating Things Aesthetic

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Making WET: The Magazine of...

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“Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.”
Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

“Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty or ugliness. The beauty of wabi-sabi is in one respect, the condition of coming to terms with what you consider ugly. Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context, or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace.”
Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

“But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost?”
Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers



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