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Kazuaki Tanahashi

kazuaki tanahashi | brush mind

KAZUAKI TANAHASHI

  • You can’t hide anything in a line. You are there whatever line you draw. And you will stay there, even when you go somewhere else. If your personality is interesting enough, the line will be interesting. To do this you have to be fearless.

  • If you are a one-line artist, you can write a one-line poem, do a one-line dance, or file a one-line tax form.

  • If each moment is our entire life, how dare we kill time? If each stroke is our entire breath, how dare we correct it?

  • Let the brush see it.

  • One-line poem? Why not a one-word poem?

  • You cannot have accuracy without simplicity.

  • What pleases our eyes is not dangerous enough.

  • A good teacher takes you somewhere else. An excellent teacher changes you where you are.

[from BRUSH MIND, 1990, Parallax Press, P.O. Box 7355, Berkeley, CA, 94707]

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