“It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for a Geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings, she entertains you. Whatever you want; the rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“You see, I've always wanted to be a painter, and like many artists before me,
the female form has always been a great source of fascination.”
Sean Biggerstaff - Ben Willis

“- Freddie Miles: Don't you want to fuck every woman you see just once?
- Dickie Greenleaf: Just once?”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Freddie Miles
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf

“She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races.”
Robert Taylor - Mark Preysing