Art: Pictures of Dreams

Kenzo Okada has—at the age of 60—a secret, invisible, inexhaustible and almost magic source of images for his painting: memories of his dreams when he was young. He seems to have forgotten most of his wakeful activities—instead he recalls that in Tokyo his life "was lonely and full of dreams," and during his student days in Paris, "I fell in love with a different girl every day, and mostly I dreamed." Last week a collection of Okada's dreams was on display at M.I.T.'s Hayden Library in Cambridge, Mass. In style and approach, Okada has...