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The present age is destroying the beautiful in life
Drawn from what Okakura Kakuzō said
What Okakura Kakuzō actually said
- Okakura Kakuzō Japanese art critic and scholar (1863 to 1913)
The past may well look with pity at the poverty of our civilisation; the future will laugh at the barrenness of our art. We are destroying the beautiful in life.
Where this was said
↗The Book of Tea (1906)gutenberg.org
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