asmara on Nostr: ‘How do I look at a piece of art?’ I asked. ‘You have only to see what you see ...

‘How do I look at a piece of art?’ I asked.

‘You have only to see what you see and feel what you feel,’ was his honest and succinct answer.

‘Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder?’

‘No, Mineko, beauty is universal.

There is an absolute principle in this world that underlies the appearance and disappearance of all phenomena. That is what we call karma. It is constant and immutable, and gives rise to universal values like beauty and morality.’
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‘Do you really still have doubts,’ I asked him, ‘even at over ninety?’
‘Some things we can never be sure of,’ he replied, ‘even if we live to be a hundred years.

This proves that we are human.’

—Dr. Tetsuzo Tanigawa (art curator & author, Doubts at 90) and Mineko Iwasaki quoted in the Geisha of Gion, pgs196-197.