Japanese Quote by Barbara Bloom

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and…

— Heather Mosko

“In Japanese culture there is an art of fixing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer. The lacquer highlights the pottery’s flaw as a…

— Kim Dinan

“A kind man once told me that in Japan, broken pottery is pieced back together using gold as the glue, highlighting the cracks, making…

— Barbara Pierce Bush

“In Japanese culture it is said that if a vase is accidently broken and then glued back together, it becomes even more beautiful... regardless…

— José N. Harris

“I’m like one of those Japanese bowls That were made long ago I have some cracks in me They have been filled with gold…

— Peter Mayer

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

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

— Mother Jones

I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like…

— Andrew Wyeth

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence…

— Rem Koolhaas

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

— Anonymous

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a…

— Jane Jacobs