Japanese art always leaves something out, so that we may put it in.
Therefore it is never soothing.  It is peaceful only if we look for
peace, violent if we are afraid of violence.  Japanese art never
states the antithesis.  It is always holding the mirror up to
something that has no image.  In order to show a field, you must
draw a wood.  In order to enjoy a valley, you must see only a
mountain.  It is a habit of mind, and the reason why it does not
dally with abstraction, is that it has always taken abstraction for
granted.  It is reality, there, which must always be shown, because
it is always in doubt.  And because it is in doubt, it can never be
shown, it can only be suggested, as something beyond what one is
looking at.  It strives to make us aware of reality by showing
appearances for the contrivances they are.  But this is not realism.
Realism is only a distoritian of reality.

	- David Stacton, *Segaki*