Beauty

“If someone asks what the heart of Yamato is, I would answer: the mountain cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun.”

“This is my favorite time of the day—so beautiful and so quiet.”

“Whistler ... was his favourite painter, and with him Puvis de Chavannes.”

““It is no small thing to achieve a painting that is decorative.””

“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.”

“All change is hard at first. It’s messy in the middle and it’s gorgeous at the end.”

“The Otira Gorge ... forms a tract of the most enchanting scenery in the Colony, not to be equalled by anything of a similar kind I have yet seen in any part of the world.”

“From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.”

“Life is a gorgeous robe, crawling with fleas.”

“A clean city with a sort of cosmopolitan atmosphere set in a bright landscape.”

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes.”

“But you spoilt it all with a smile! My efforts were all useless.”

“I feel that the arts are one of the greatest gifts that the creator has given us as human beings.”

“I don't like art that is too much intellect. I like it to speak to my heart, my reason.”

“My tomb shall be in a certain place where each breath of the north wind shall shower down roses upon it.”

“Если что меня спасает от ненависти к жизни, это именно моя прирожденная любовь к поэзии, к красоте всего мимолетного, к тихим маленьким радостям, заключающимся в пожатии руки и в глубоком взгляде.”

“A curse of Abu Nuwas in hell contains more poetry than a laudation of Rakâshi’s in paradise.”

“宮柳靑靑花亂飛, 滿城冠蓋媚春輝。”