Japanese Art Quotes

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  • Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

    Change   Art   Names  
    Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller
  • I draw manga, therefore I am!

    Art   Drawing   Painter  
  • ... life is too short to do the whole.

    Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
  • Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

    Art   Italian   Space  
    "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
  • Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.

    Art   Fun   Color  
    "Parking in the Meatpacking: Johnny Pigozzi". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2010.
  • If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

    Art   Museums   Shining  
    "Nobody's Perfect: How to Reclaim the Joy in Your Relationship". Interview with Laurie Sue Brockway, www.everydayhealth.com. February 16, 2012.
  • If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

    Wise   Art   Distance  
  • I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..." Tessa stared. "Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master,' or 'the magister,' either. More's the pity.

    Art   Lying   Flower  
  • On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

    Art   Book   Littles  
  • In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

    Art   Space   Roles  
    Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee
  • The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart under that ice-queen exterior. She likes the stark simplicity of Japanese art and the daring complexity of Russian literature. She prefers sharp to flowing lines, brooding to pouting, and rock and roll to country and western. Her drink is vodka, her car is German, her analgesic is Advil. The Winter Woman likes her men weak and her coffee strong. She is prone to anemia, hysteria, and suicide.

    Suicide   Country   Art  
  • Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.

    Beautiful   Art   Morning  
  • Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

    Art   Mean   Years  
  • If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.

    Wise   Art   Intelligent  
    Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
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