Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Okakura Kakuzo
Okakura Kakuzo Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.
In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.
One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites.
Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?
Taoism was an active power during the Shin dynasty, that epoch of Chinese unification from which we derive the name China.
Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.
Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.
The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the work ... People criticize a picture by their ear
It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.