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‘Art, then, is an increase of life,a sort of competition of surprises that stimulates our consciousness and keeps it from becoming somnolent.’

“…the tea rooms are like charming human birds’ nests in rock gardens where nature, irregularity, poignancy and brevity hold sway.”

“Creativity, far from requiring rare gifts and skills, depends on what you believe you can do with the talents and skills you already have.”

“You don’t show love and care by putting what you love behind a fence. You have to be involved. You have to contribute to the well-being of the world.”

“We have enjoyed the feast generously laid out for us by Mother Earth, but now the plates are empty and the dining room is a mess. It’s time we started doing the dishes in Mother’s Earth’s kitchen.”

“Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging - to a family, to a people, and to the land”

“Museums are more than just physical places designed to house collections. Their purpose is to shape identity and memory.”

“Objects have always been carried, sold, bartered, stolen, retrieved and lost. People have always given gifts. It is how you tell their stories that matters.”

“[...] investing energy into something hard but worthwhile almost always returns much richer rewards.”

“Nobody will open a book and wish it contains more types of letters or be disappointed because it is, again, just another variation of the same alphabet.”

"Beauty knows no borders. Beauty is where heart meet. It is where human happiness mingles, where you can hear voices speaking in friendly tones."

“I am tempted to call [Western] art ‘the art of even numbers’. In contrast to this, what that Japanese eyes sought was the beauty of imperfection, which I would call’ the art of odd numbers’. No other country has pursued the art of imperfection as eagerly as Japan.”

‘I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it.’

‘If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”)’

“What machines produce is standardised beauty, calibrated and fixed, and beauty built to a standard will remain merely that. Mechanisation constitutes a kind of aesthetic strangulation. When machines are in control, the beauty they produce is cold and shallow. It is the human hand that creates subtlety and warmth.”

“Evidently Tsurukawa accurately classified human feelings in the neat little drawers that he kept in his room, like boys who classify various specimens of insects; and occasionally he enjoyed taking them out for a bit of practical experimentation.”

“Japan isa swamp because it sucks up all sorts of ideologies, transforming them into itself and distorting them in the process.”

“‘What a dreadful surprise,’ said Beatty. ‘For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. [...]’”

“Confined to my house by the order of my superiors, I spent the past year or so reading all manner of writing [...]” me too Musui, me too.