“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
“The secret to becoming unbreakable is realizing that you are already broken. We all are.”
Brant Menswar
“I am looking forward to getting shattered only to add further elegance to myself.”
Aura Trevortini
“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
“Broken pieces and their repair merely contribute to the story of an object, they don’t ruin it.”
Penny Reid
“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
“Why be broken when you can be gold?”
Sarah Rees Brennan
“Embrace your imperfections and find happiness – the Japanese way.”
Tomas Navarro
“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
“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
“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
“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
“If you’re broken, hold until each piece of you heals one again. Life is but a Kintsukuroi.”
Samara Rhea Samuel
“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
“My heart full of gold veins, instead of cracks.”
Leah Raeder
“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
“Did you know that pottery can be repaired with gold?” Kami asked. “Then it’s meant to be stronger than before, and more beautiful.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
“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
“And now every time that it shatters I build it back together better, stronger, with more unique random scars to redefine, to beautify, to create more success stories that I can claim to be mine, alone.”
Rubina
“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
“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
“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
“All beautiful things carry distinctions of imperfection. Your wounds and imperfections are your beauty. Like the broken pottery mended with gold, we are all Kintsugi. Its philosophy and art state that breakage and mending are honest parts of a past which should not be hidden. Your wounds and healing are a part of your history; a part of who you are. Every beautiful thing is damaged. You are that beauty; we all are.”
Bryant McGill
“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
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