Tatsumi Quotes

#1. The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies.

Adrian Tomine

#2. Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

Tatsumi Hijikata

#4. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

#5. Christianity, said Erasmus, has been made to consist not in loving one's neighbor but in abstaining from butter and cheese during Lent.

Roland H. Bainton

#6. The rat gave birth. Six little ones ... cute baby rats ... None of them are like Hitler.

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

#7. A man shouldn't go crying like that, people will think you're weak.

Ryuhei Tamura

#8. Writing about food is my default.

Ruth Reichl

#9. One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

John Podhoretz

#11. There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#12. The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

Tatsumi Hijikata

#13. There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Paul Mellon

#14. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#15. You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#16. When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#17. Thus he became one with a life in its pure state, he rediscovered a paradise given only to the most private or the most intelligent animals. At the point where the mind denies the mind, he touched his truth and with it his extreme glory, his extreme love.

Albert Camus