“We Orientals create a kind of beauty of our own by calling forth shadows in places that, by nature, would normally stand in the glare of the sun; we place it in corners where otherwise there would be nothing but disorder. By making use of shadows, a realm of beauty forms, a realm we cannot imagine in a space flooded with light. In the pale glow of a paper lantern, the murk of an alcove, the patina of a well-used object, there is an elegance that cannot be found in the clarity of electric lights. Beauty, in its truest form, does not shine; it hovers, delicate and fleeting, in the space between light and dark.”