"The sympathetic communion of minds necessary for art appreciation must be based on mutual concession. The spectator must cultivate the proper attitude for receiving the message, as the artist must know how to impart it. The tea-master, Kobori Enshu, himself a daimyo, has left to us these memorable words: 'Approach a great painting as thou woudst approach a great prince.' In order to understand a masterpiece, you must lay yourself low before it and await with bated breath its least utterance."
From The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura.
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