"To know and not do, is to not yet know."

-- Confucius

“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”

Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.119, Faber & Faber
“I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings”
“Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.”
“I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.”

Source : "Socialist Francois Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in French presidential election", www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.
“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”
“The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark”
“It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.”
“Certainly it is not a democracy.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au

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