Art

“You can’t stop me from singing because that’s my life, that’s what makes me tick. Without singing I will die.”

“I think if songs are good they will find a home.”

“I look back with joy on taking a brush of white paint and curving through the darkness with a line of white.”

“The power of cinema lies in its ability to cut across social barriers.”

“I like everything that has no style.”

“The film is the end of my public life rather than the beginning.”

“I want to play women in all their many facets.”

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

“Art gives the ability to look at the world anew.”

“A poem is not a poem if it does not open readers’ eyes to political wrongs.”

“I hardly ever see my paintings around. I don’t have the faintest idea where half of my life’s work is.”

“Art interests me greatly, but the truth interests me infinitely more.”

“I’ve always had a horror of specialization in any one medium.”

“Si en la base de la construcción hay emoción o razonamiento, nos debe dar igual: nuestro único objetivo es construir.”

“El arte no es expresión, el arte es conocimiento.”

“I think that all people are artists.”

“Le personnage d’Abou Salim était un peu moi.”

“I have been working on the sarimanok style. This is a design I am trying to improve, revitalize.”