Shiko Munakata quotes

“Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.”
-- Shiko Munakata

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“I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.”
-- Shiko Munakata

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“I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block... It is the ultimate ideal.”
-- Shiko Munakata

Source : Shikō Munakata (1991). “The Woodblock and the Artist: The Life and Work of Shiko Munakata”

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“The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.”

“Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.”

“Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.”

“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”

“Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.”

“Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.”

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

Source : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

“...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".”

“No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.”

“Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.”