Anything Quote by Arthur Golden

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

— Anonymous

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

— Arthur Golden

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.

— Zhang Ziyi

This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and…

— Deborah Smith

“Anyway I think I met him in the Swai. I was a Geisha, he was a Samurai”

— Nicki Minaj

Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen…

— Jacki Weaver

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

— Makoto Shinkai

“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the…

— A. A. Attanasio

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man…

— Arthur Golden

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's…

— Omar Sharif

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our…

— Adrian Tomine