The Japanese craft of “kintsugi” involves using gold to repair shattered ceramics.
Kintsugi, or “golden joinery”, is a traditional Japanese practice of mending ceramics with lacquer, typically urushi and metal powder.
This method highlights rather than hides the cracks, embodying the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which appreciates the beauty of imperfection and impermanence.
The lacquer, mixed with rice or flour glue, acts as a powerful adhesive, piecing the ceramic back together and allowing it to dry and harden over a few months.
The repaired sections are then coated with colored urushi and dusted with metal powder, creating striking lines of gold or silver. If a piece is missing, it is recreated using similar techniques.
Although the exact origin of kintsugi is unclear, it’s believed to have gained popularity during the 15th century, around the development of the Japanese tea ceremony.
Today, contemporary artists and wellness advocates celebrate kintsugi for its symbolic representation of resilience and acceptance.
Below are some of the top quotes about Kintsugi.
Kintsugi Quotes
God uses our brokenness to make us even more beautiful. It’s the place of brokenness where God comes in to restore and renew. ~ James Prescott.
Kintsugi, the art of beautiful imperfection. ~ Unknown.
If you’re broken, hold until each piece of you heals one again. Life is but a Kintsukuroi. ~ Samara Rhea Samuel.
Paint your cracks with gold, let them add to your beauty. ~ Unknown.
The bonded seams become an intrinsic part of the ceramic and add a personalized, one-of-a-kind beauty through its imperfections. ~ Jo Ann V. Glim.
Kintsugi: stronger and more beautiful in the broken places. ~ Unknown.
I sit and pick up those pieces with their renewed essence and identities, with their flawed edges and imperfections, and join them together like Kintsugi, displaying the damages with pride. ~ Rubina.
Kintsugi: Embrace your imperfections and find happiness – the Japanese way. ~ Tomas Navarro.
In the language of delicate perception Kintsugi is the art of mending what is broken. The Emperor’s plate is smashed. Death and despair! Yet here is powdered gold and platinum, with resin bled from Chinese lacquer trees to run in cracks and make it whole again. For my poor love I cannot find repair without a balm more powerful than these. ~ Roy Ernest Ballard.
Crack allow the light to get in. ~ Unknown.
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Best Kintsugi Quotes
Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing cracked pottery with gold, and knowing that the brokeness can make an object even more beautiful. ~ Unknown.
World is imperfect. Life is imperfect. You are imperfect. I’m imperfect. All are Kintsugi. ~ Unknown.
It’s not what people are showing that’s worrying, it’s what they are concealing and the extent of the concealment. ~ Et Imperatrix Noctem.
The secret to becoming unbreakable is realizing that you are already broken. We all are. ~ Brant Menswar.
Kintsugi: The ancient Japanese art of mending broken objects with gold teaches us that if we choose to embrace our struggles and repair ourselves with love. We become more beautiful for having been broken. ~ Unknown.
The point of Kintsugi is to treat broken pieces and their repair as part of the history of an object. ~ Penny Reid.
It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them. ~ David Wong.
Kintsugi Quotes for Healing
In Japan, broken objects are often repaired with gold. The flaw is seen as a unique piece of the object’s history, which adds to its beauty. Consider this when you feel broken. ~ Unknown.
The Japanese art form of kintsugi repairs broken and flawed pottery with gold, silver or platinum. It doesn’t hide the cracks, but embraces it, seeing it as integral to the object’s history, and rebuilds something new. ~ Sidhanta Patnaik.
Only when one is free to choose, one can be responsible for one’s actions. ~ Et Imperatrix Noctem, Kintsugi.
Kintsugi is a pottery technique. When something breaks, like a vase, they glue it back together with melted gold. Instead of making the cracks invisible, they make them beautiful…To celebrate the history of the object….What it’s been through. And I was just… Thinking of us like that. ~ Leah Raeder.
To become beautiful it had to break. ~ Aura Trevortini.
Famous Kintsugi Quotes
Why be broken when you can be gold? – Sarah Rees Brennan.
My heart full of gold veins, instead of cracks. ~ Leah Raeder.
Kintsugi, the Japanese art of embracing the imperfect and loving your flaws. ~ Unknown.
The scars are the design. Your attention is drawn to the cracks and how they are mended. That is what you’re supposed to see. The beauty is in the brokenness. ~ Justin Whitmel Earley.
Just like the art of Kintsugi, he knew the art of fixing up broken people with the lacquer of his golden words. ~ Unknown.
Golden Healing: Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects with gold. Because the ‘flaw’ reveals its history, the resulting piece is considered more beautiful. Your healing is your story. Mend yourself with love. ~ Unknown.
Kintsugi [is] not just a method of repair but also a philosophy. It’s the belief that the breaks, cracks, and repairs become a valuable and esteemed part of the history of an object, rather than something to be hidden. That, in fact, the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. ~ Kathleen Tessaro.
Kintsugi is based on the belief that something broken is stronger and more beautiful because of its imperfections, the history attached to it, and its altered state. ~ Jo Ann V. Glim.
You are more beautiful because you have been broken. ~ Unknown.
Kintsugi: Built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece of art. ~ Unknown.
Powerful Kintsugi Quotes
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken objects using gold of silver epoxy. The Japanese believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful. ~ Unknown.
Broken pieces and their repair merely contribute to the story of an object, they don’t ruin it. ~ Penny Reid.
Kintsugi is a form of art embodying Wabi Sabi which is a word to appreciate Japanese aesthetic sensibilities. (Wabi Sabi which represents beauty within simplicity and imperfection) Nothing lasts forever, nothing is complete, nothing is perfect. Your scar is important part of your life and is a part of you. It is a living history, never look scars as negative, instead take it as positive. ~ Shawzi Tsukanoto.
In repairing the object you really ended up loving it more, because you now knew its eagerness to be reassembled, and in running a fingertip over its surface you alone could feel its many cracks – a bond stronger than mere possession. ~ Nicholson Baker.
The struggles will become your story, And that’s the beauty of Kintsugi. Your cracks can become the most beautiful part of you. ~ Candice Kumai.
I am looking forward to getting shattered only to add further elegance to myself. ~ Aura Trevortini.
A break is something to remember, something of value, a way to make the piece more beautiful, rather than something to disguise. They use gold, not invisible superglue because mistakes shouldn’t be considered ugly. ~ Penny Reid.
So these were the 47 quotes about Kintsugi.
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