Beautiful Quote by Ma Yansong

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design,…

— E. J. W. Barber

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in…

— Tadao Ando

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses…

— Isabella Bird

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

— Stephen Gardiner

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the…

— Tadao Ando

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand -…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was a garden…

— Ma Yansong

A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than…

— Russell Page

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

— Tadao Ando

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that…

— Peter Zumthor

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

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