Junichiro Tanizaki Quotes
- There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that…
- Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.
- The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.
- Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
- Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in…
- And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?
- I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves…
- With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at…
- The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.