37 Quotes by Okakura Kakuzō

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings – generally the latter.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.