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Top 25 Okakura Kakuzo Quotes (2025 Update)

Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”

1. “The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Friends are flowers in life’s garden.”

2. “Friends are flowers in life’s garden.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.”

3. “Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

4. “Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.”

5. “True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “A garden is a friend you can visit any time.”

6. “A garden is a friend you can visit any time.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

7. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

8. “Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.”

9. “Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.”

10. “A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

11. “Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that’s it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.”

12. “In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that’s it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.”

13. “We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.”

14. “Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings – generally the latter.”

15. “Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings – generally the latter.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.”

16. “Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.”

17. “Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

18. “Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.”

19. “Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.”

20. “The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.”

21. “It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”

22. “Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.”

23. “Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator’s mind.”

24. “The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator’s mind.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “In art the Present is the eternal.”

25. “In art the Present is the eternal.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”

26. “The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “One of the first requisites of a tea-master is the knowledge of how to sweep, clean, and wash, for there is an art in cleaning and dusting.”

27. “One of the first requisites of a tea-master is the knowledge of how to sweep, clean, and wash, for there is an art in cleaning and dusting.”

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Okakura Kakuzo Quote: “Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar is forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol, – ourselves. Our God is great, and money is his Prophet!”

28. “Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar is forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol, – ourselves. Our God is great, and money is his Prophet!”

— Okakura Kakuzo

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