imperfection

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• Mar 6 The Vacuum You Enter Okakura Kakuzō, The Book of Tea The dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection wa...
• Feb 17 A Mania for Drawing Katsushika Hokusai, Postscript to 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji' From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published...
• Jan 31 Signs of Life John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mort...
• Jan 16 The Liberty of the Workman John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, where you have smiled so often at the fantastic...