Beauty Of Japan Quotes

#1. Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.

Rem Koolhaas

#2. I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.

Elsa Peretti

#3. From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Yasunari Kawabata

#4. She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for the delicate sake cups, resting in her hand like a blossom; she went to Japan for loveliness.

Z.Z. Packer

#5. Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Judith Clancy

#6. One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Mary Ritter Beard

#7. I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

Stanley Donwood

#8. The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!

Ryunosuke Akutagawa