Art

“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.”

“من یک شاعر تراژدی هستم.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was born to sing, nothing else.”

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

“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.”

“حملني على اختيار فن التمثيل ميلٌ تولَّد في صدري، وأنا لا أزال منشدًا قارئًا للقرآن الشريف.”

“I am the luckiest man in the world, because when I paint, I am completely happy.”

“الفن ترجمانٌ طبيعيٌّ للقلوب”