林白夫人用談話間的短暫沉默來比喻留白，話語間的停歇，會讓彼此間的交流更融合，我覺得很感動的是她受西方教育，卻能欣賞到留白的精髓．那片空白並非什麼都沒有．特別從圖書館抄下之後，又打上電腦．
The rest of the canvas, bare. But although bare, it was not empty. Crowded with space, I felt paradoxically that it was the most important part of the painting, like those silence in a conversation which are so powerful that words against them flicker feebly, as stars against the wealth of blackness at night.
And yet in the painting, although bird and grass were in a way dwarfed by this space, they were also apart by it.Washed in space, they stood put, vivid and alone, a halo of stillness about them. Perhaps, I thought, this is how Japanese see everything in nature, always with a halo of stillness and therefore always beautiful.
This appreciative vision, which saw beauty in the smallest things and made beauty in the most trivial acts, which shone through and illuminated the paper and string of life,seemed to me to find its most vivid expression in the Tea ceremony.
Tea ceremony, as it was explained to me, could almost be called an aesthetic rite. Its observance gave a new appreciation of art and of the beauty in everyday life. One should withdraw occasionally from the bustle of daily routine. In a place of quite and simplicity, one should sit with a few friends and, in the act of sharing tea, contemplate the surrounding beauty. From this symposium one should return to life with the fresh eyes of a child. The curator of the museum would show me an old Tea ceremony house.
