... life is too short to do the whole.

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

— Larry Ellison

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature…

— John Berger

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage…

— Miyavi

If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded…

— Jean-Claude Ellena

“Well," he asked, "whaddya expect?" It was so obviously a rhetorical question that of course I answered it. My truth impulse seemed stronger around…

— Melissa Jensen

Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the…

— Fumio Sasaki

“I've mastered many thing's in my life. Navigating the streets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades,…

— Cassandra Clare

I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art…

— Cassandra Clare

I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and…

— Tony Harrison

“So much was lost - names, faces, ages, ethnic identities - that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must…

— Michael W. Twitty

In Japan, after having lost World War II, the hierarchy that used to exist in the society, from the rich to the poor, has…

— Takashi Murakami

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on…

— Arielle Ford

“These Taoists' ideas have greatly influenced all our theories of action, even to those of fencing and wrestling. Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence,…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for…

— Joan Stanley-Baker