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To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Art Creativity Writing

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Air Humanity Humankind Invention Nature Science Technology Water

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Human People

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Dreaming Dreams Intelligence Man Sleep

If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords—if that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million—those people on that street in Sōshigaya probably would have done what they were told and died. And probably I would have done likewise. The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. We were accustomed to this teaching and had never thought to question it.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa 1945 1982 Japanese Culture Self Abnegation Self Sacrifice Suicide Surrender Wwii

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Auteur Author Creator Honesty Revelation Truth

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Insanity Madness Sanity

In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a traditional patter for selling a potion that was supposed to be particularly effective in treating burns and cuts. A toad with four legs in front and six behind would be placed in a box with mirrors lining the four walls. The toad, amazed at its own appearance from every angle, would break into an oily sweat. This sweat would be collected and simmered for 3,721 days while being stirred with a willow branch. The result was the marvelous potion.When writing about myself, I feel something like that toad in the box.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa 1981 Autobiography Japan Medicine Potions Remedy Self Consciousness Toads

But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Film

Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence of criminals, I still maintain that those who use this theory as a defense of criminality are overlooking the fact that there are many people in this defective society who survive without resorting to crime. The argument to the contrary is pure sophistry.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa 1948 1982 Criminality Drunken Angel Sociology Yakuza
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