Kakuzo Okakura Quotes

#1. But the friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour.

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#2. Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique. The

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#3. Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.

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#4. We classify too much and enjoy too little.

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#5. The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.

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#6. A master has always something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack of appreciation.

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#7. Let us stop the continents from hurling epigrams at each other, and be sadder if not wiser by the mutual gain of half a hemisphere. We have developed along different lines, but there is no reason why one should not supplement the other. You

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