If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

— Marcel Proust

7 aesthetic principles for achieving wabi-sabi:

Fukinsei: asymmetry, irregularity;

Kanso: simplicity;

Koko: basic, weathered;

Shizen: without pretense, natural;

Yugen: subtly profound grace, not obvious;

Datsuzoku: unbounded by convention, free;

Seijaku: tranquility amongst chaos