Okakura Kakuzo Quotes - Page 2

• In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Sweet, Queens, Ivory

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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

  Art, Reflection, Today

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.81, Tuttle Publishing

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Betrayal

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Design, Sides, Thread

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  War, Civilization, Mindfulness

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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