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Top 15 Makoto Fujimura Quotes (2026 Update)

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “Effective stewardship leads to generative work and a generative culture. We turn wheat into bread – and bread into community. We turn grapes into wine – and wine into occasions for joyful camaraderie, conviviality, conversation, and creativity. We turn minerals into paints – and paints into works that lift the heart or stir the spirit. We turn ideas and experiences into imaginative worlds for sheer enjoyment and to expand the scope of our empathy.”

1. “Effective stewardship leads to generative work and a generative culture. We turn wheat into bread – and bread into community. We turn grapes into wine – and wine into occasions for joyful camaraderie, conviviality, conversation, and creativity. We turn minerals into paints – and paints into works that lift the heart or stir the spirit. We turn ideas and experiences into imaginative worlds for sheer enjoyment and to expand the scope of our empathy.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “According to Flaubert, the artist inhabits his or her work as God does: present everywhere, but visible nowhere.”

2. “According to Flaubert, the artist inhabits his or her work as God does: present everywhere, but visible nowhere.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “Truth is beautiful, but it also exacts a cost – on those who tell it and on those who choose to listen.”

3. “Truth is beautiful, but it also exacts a cost – on those who tell it and on those who choose to listen.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “Art reveals the power of the intuitive, capturing the reality hiding beneath the culture. The.”

4. “Art reveals the power of the intuitive, capturing the reality hiding beneath the culture. The.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “When we cross borders culturally, we experience some alienation from our own culture and gain an objective perspective toward our own culture at the same time. A bicultural individual comes to identify home as a culture outside his or her original identity, and may vacillate in commitment and loyalty to both cultures.”

5. “When we cross borders culturally, we experience some alienation from our own culture and gain an objective perspective toward our own culture at the same time. A bicultural individual comes to identify home as a culture outside his or her original identity, and may vacillate in commitment and loyalty to both cultures.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “There is no art if we are unwilling to wait for the paint to dry.”

6. “There is no art if we are unwilling to wait for the paint to dry.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “What if artists became known for their generosity rather than only their self-expression?”

7. “What if artists became known for their generosity rather than only their self-expression?”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “What if we committed to speaking fresh creativity and vision into culture rather than denouncing and boycotting other cultural products?”

8. “What if we committed to speaking fresh creativity and vision into culture rather than denouncing and boycotting other cultural products?”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “Where does this openness to the “other” come from in artists? Some may grow out of empathy earned because artists are themselves often exiled from a normative tribal identity. There is also training to extend that empathy. In art, we constantly train ourselves to inhabit or portray the “other.” Artists learn to be adaptable and blend into an environment while not belonging to it, which also requires learning to speak new tribal languages.”

9. “Where does this openness to the “other” come from in artists? Some may grow out of empathy earned because artists are themselves often exiled from a normative tribal identity. There is also training to extend that empathy. In art, we constantly train ourselves to inhabit or portray the “other.” Artists learn to be adaptable and blend into an environment while not belonging to it, which also requires learning to speak new tribal languages.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “Even today artists are often valued in the church only if they create art for the church, or at least “Christian art.” We cannot “use” the arts for evangelism or discipleship any more than we can “use” a human being for utilitarian purposes.”

10. “Even today artists are often valued in the church only if they create art for the church, or at least “Christian art.” We cannot “use” the arts for evangelism or discipleship any more than we can “use” a human being for utilitarian purposes.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “One might say that Japanese faith developed as negative space around the forbidden faith of Christianity. So while the Tokugawa era successfully purged Christians from Japan, an unanticipated outcome was that in banning Christianity they created an imprint of it, a negative space within culture. In a culture that honors the hidden, the weak and the unspoken, Christianity became a hidden reality of Japanese culture.”

11. “One might say that Japanese faith developed as negative space around the forbidden faith of Christianity. So while the Tokugawa era successfully purged Christians from Japan, an unanticipated outcome was that in banning Christianity they created an imprint of it, a negative space within culture. In a culture that honors the hidden, the weak and the unspoken, Christianity became a hidden reality of Japanese culture.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “In some sense, a broken marriage is due to the unresolved tension between two tribal identities. All marriages are crosscultural, so a good therapist will help raise to the surface the issues and resources of each culture in the relationship and then help the two conflicting cultures come together as complements.”

12. “In some sense, a broken marriage is due to the unresolved tension between two tribal identities. All marriages are crosscultural, so a good therapist will help raise to the surface the issues and resources of each culture in the relationship and then help the two conflicting cultures come together as complements.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “When we make, we invoke the abundance of God’s world into the reality of scarcity all about us.”

13. “When we make, we invoke the abundance of God’s world into the reality of scarcity all about us.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “In order to be effective messengers of hope, we must begin by trusting our inner voice, an inner intuition that speaks into the vast wastelands of our time. This process requires training our imagination to see beyond tribal norms, to see the vista of the wider pastures of culture.”

14. “In order to be effective messengers of hope, we must begin by trusting our inner voice, an inner intuition that speaks into the vast wastelands of our time. This process requires training our imagination to see beyond tribal norms, to see the vista of the wider pastures of culture.”

— Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura Quote: “The current reality of artists being disconnected from other disciplines, and even, in some cases, being seen as opposed to reason, creates a false dichotomy of knowing. Art is fundamental to the human search for deeper understanding. Art, by extension of this reasoning, is fundamental to understanding the Bible.”

15. “The current reality of artists being disconnected from other disciplines, and even, in some cases, being seen as opposed to reason, creates a false dichotomy of knowing. Art is fundamental to the human search for deeper understanding. Art, by extension of this reasoning, is fundamental to understanding the Bible.”

— Makoto Fujimura

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