Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

It is a privileged school with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist, but not exclusive. And I'm not in ashamed in the least of being elitist. All that means is aiming at the highest standards you can achieve.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.

Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me.

I try to make things that are not elitist.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

As someone who is obsessed with fashion, I personally own non-vegan materials and am very open about that. I don't think it's right to pretend to be someone you're not to get sales. People know me on a real level because of how open I am in my videos. It was a simple choice: I didn't want to exclude anyone, that wasn't fair. I wanted EVERY customer to be able to wear my art. And it's morally right. End of story.

You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.

If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.