Top 10 Most Inspiring Kintsugi Quotes

What Is The Meaning Of Kintsugi (Kintsukuroi)?

A shattered object transforms from one thing to a visual gesture that inspires us to replicate its strong transformation, and a wound transforms from a dark stroke to a window of light, metaphorically speaking.

Kintsugi is a Japanese art form that is both quiet and visible. Accepting a traumatic occurrence as a diamond, like a luminous line on a tiger's skin, requires labeling it with gold dust. 


What Is The Philosophy Behind Kintsugi?

The Japanese art of filling cracks in porcelain with liquid gold resin is a reminder to us all that flaws can be the key attributes.

“The world breaks everyone, then some become strong at the broken places.”

-Ernest Hemingway


The scar is one symbol that we all worry about in the swollen crowd of metaphors we use to refer to life. The universe tears us open, fills us with fissures, and that is where there is a whole continuum of possibilities; the scar becomes a justification to face the world, as Hemingway said in the above-mentioned quote.

Nobody has used this metaphor in kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) art of greater elegance and transparency than the Japanese.

Kintsugi (Kintsugi Methods) is a Japanese technique for healing porcelain cracks with gold-powdered varnish or resin. As a result, breakages and replacements are a part of an object's past and can be shown rather than covered. Scars enhance the object's beauty by manifesting its transformation. There objects are often called kintsugi pottery, kintsugi bowl, kintsugi artwork or kintsugi kit.


“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” the poet Rumi once wrote.


There is something almost diametrically similar to the Western way of viewing a fracture, both psychologically and physically, about this philosophy.

Instead of tossing away a damaged entity that no longer serves its function, it takes on a new one: that of an active tweet.


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