Creativity

“O ofício do artista é simplesmente o do instrumento transmissor.”

“I like portraying diverse people, and always have; I try to be as versatile as I can on the screen, and on stage.”

“In my desperate struggle to free art from the ballast of the objective world I fled to the form of the Square.”

“Não existe teatro sem fita crepe.”

“It’s the whole question ... of imagination in an industrial society.”

“I always try to have a surprise in a song, a lift in a song.”

“My process is thinking, thinking and thinking -- thinking about my stories for a long time.”

“Nowadays, art should not be based on technique, nor on beauty, nor comfort.”

“I’m a very slow composer.”

“As a painter, I conceive that this must have been the great secret of the perfection to which the Greek and Roman sculptors brought their works.”

“En tiempos de incertidumbre y desesperanzas es imprescindible gestar proyectos colectivos donde planificar la esperanza con otros, sin dudas, un verdadero acto creativo.”

“This time, I was telling my own story instead of creating characters in my head.”

“My music has always been a reflection of where I'm at in my life.”

“A picture should end as it has to.”

“I always want the camera to be someone.”

“Кожен мій твір, татку, породжує у мені болісно-солодкий дрож, який збагачує моє духовне життя. Без нього в душі була б цілковита порожнеча. Той дрож робить серце здатним чинити на світі добро.”

“What we need is an open climate within our institutions to allow artists to practise their art.”

“I need my painting to be a dramatic echo of the moment I live in.”