Zeami Motokiyo Quotes (10+)

Enjoy the best Zeami Motokiyo Quotes. Quotations by Zeami Motokiyo (Japanese Playwright and Actor)
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The mind should be like a mirror, reflecting all without being attached.

Grace is the harmony of movement and spirit.

To see the unseen is the highest form of perception.

The flower of the artist is the soul of the performance.

If ghosts are terrifying, they cease to be beautiful.

In imitation there should be a tinge of the 'unlike.'

Never forget the beginner's spirit.

A man's life has an end, but there is no end to the pursuit of art.

I will gaze at the moon and cleanse my heart.

Life is a lying dream, he only wakes who casts the World aside.

About the Author

Zeami Motokiyo (c. 1363–1443) was a Japanese aesthetician, actor, and playwright who revolutionized Noh theater. His theoretical treatises on the 'flower' of performance remain seminal texts in Japanese aesthetics.