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“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.”

“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.”