Art

“It was music that chose me, I'd say.”

“House of Hope is abstract. It concerns the existence of something large, but which we cannot grasp.”

“La création est une odyssée sans escale.”

“My ambition was not to be a great artist, but I have always wanted to be a man like any other man.”

“To save people means to save art itself. The activity of an artist means the active denial of death.”

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion.”

“يا أبناء بلادي... إن تربية الشعور بالجمال تخلق في نفس المرء حتماً حبّ النظام. وإن الفنون هي الأسس الجبارة التي تقوم عليها الأمم، وتُشاد الحضارة، وتُعِدّ النفوس للعمل الكبير.”

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”

“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”

“Ever since I first painted or drew, it has always been to bite into reality.”

“I am only a link in the chain of world culture; and if that is not so, then all my work is rubbish.”

“The fusion of music should have no limits, because it’s all music.”

“Everyone is an artist.”

“Fikri hür, irfanı hür, vicdanı hür, bir şairim.”

“In Paris…no one regards me curiously. I am simply “M. Tanner, an American artist.””

“You hit that string and it made a crazy sound. It’s very primal.”

“Music has always been my therapy and it's always really cathartic for me.”

“Cuando estoy en escena ni veo nada. Sólo pienso en la canción que interpreto y me hundo, me entrego, me olvido, vuelvo a vivir mis cosas.”