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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.
— Kakuzo Okakura
We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea
— Douglas Preston
The greatest pleasure he knew was to do a good action by stealth
— Okakura Kakuzo
People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.
— Okakura Kakuzo
The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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.
— Okakura Kakuzo
We classify too much and enjoy too little.
— Kakuzo Okakura
What dire consequences to humanity lie in the contemptuous ignoring of Eastern problems!
— Okakura Kakuzo
In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?
— Okakura Kakuzo
The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Friends are flowers in life's garden.
— Okakura Kakuzo
With tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Taoism was an active power during the Shin dynasty, that epoch of Chinese unification from which we derive the name China.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.
— Okakura Kakuzo
A garden is a friend you can visit any time.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
— Okakura Kakuzo
We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.
— Okakura Kakuzo
He only who has lived with the beautiful can die beautifully.
— Okakura Kakuzo
The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the work ... People criticize a picture by their ear
— Okakura Kakuzo
Welcome to thee,
O sword of eternity!
Through Buddha
And through Daruma alike
Thou hast cleft thy way. — Okakura Kakuzo
O sword of eternity!
Through Buddha
And through Daruma alike
Thou hast cleft thy way. — Okakura Kakuzo
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
— Okakura Kakuzo
He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue.
— Okakura Kakuzo
It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.
— Okakura Kakuzo
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and peace.
— Okakura Kakuzo
A master has always something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack of appreciation.
— Kakuzo Okakura
In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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.
— Okakura Kakuzo
The seeker for perfection must discover in his own life the reflection of the inner light.
— Okakura Kakuzo
It needed the genius of the Tang dynasty to emancipate Tea from its crude state and lead to its final idealization.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
— Okakura Kakuzo
But the friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour.
— Kakuzo Okakura