Art Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro Download Open image ““My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world.”” — Kazuo Ishiguro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Floating Conscience Conscience Sensei Ethics Floating World Sensei Tells
“Nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He could feel himself gliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond below where mermaids sing and… — Matthew Chase Stroud Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“...but since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, and everything that my chosen path required ceased… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“At time I find the true material of my spirit, this earthly body is no longer my only vessel.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought,” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the sea of your thoughts lies treasure. Dive deep inside, discover it. WRITE.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“About him and his wife voting for different parties. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable.” “No doubt.” “Quite extraordinary the things… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“For however one may come in later years to reassess one’s achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one’s life has contained… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image