7 Quotes by Kenya Hara

Before high technology began to drive society, there had been a balanced tug-of-war between technique and sensory perceptions. We used to judge issues and phenomena based on our sensory perceptions. If the motivation for driving the world turns into something aiming at an even higher technology, human senses may degenerate just as inactive muscles lose strength.

Sense-driven describes a situation in which progress pivots on our sensory perceptions. Let's pit this concept against that of the technology-driven world. Reviewing the world based on our senses would be sound and meaningful for technology as well.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

White can be attained by blending all the colors of the spectrum together, or through the substraction of ink and all other pigments. In short, it is “all colors” and “no color” at the same time.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.