Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• …It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued. ‘When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I’ve wasted my time.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Unique, Men

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Mar 24, 2012

• If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Doubt, Height, Impression

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 11, 2014

• I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to believe in its worth. Young men are often guilt-ridden about pleasure, and I suppose I was no different. I suppose I thought that to pass away one's time in such places, to spend one's skills celebrating things so intangible and transient, I suppose I thought it all rather wasteful, all rather decadent. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Men, Skills

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.150, Vintage

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