Art

“To resist is to be a poet and to live an uninterrupted metaphor.”

“so it came that being in the bush and feeling the delight and fascination of the great pastoral life and work I have tried to express it”

“I think I was always meant to be an artist.”

“the creative treatment of actuality”

“I wasn’t an artist who was just sitting in his studio, painting and coming back.”

“The idea that the director pulls a performance, it’s not like that.”

“When I’m writing novels, reality and unreality just naturally get mixed together.”

“I relocated because I wanted to be closer to my son, although it was mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown that restricted creatives from conducting live shows.”

“I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help.”

“If you look at my face while I am singing, you will see that I am not there, I am not in the place.”

“I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.”

“Песни Володи подарили мне крылья.”

“When you're writing a story, it often feels less like you're doing architecture and more like you're doing excavation—we're just unearthing it.”

“إنّني مدين للفن.”

“La poesía es respiración y silencio.”

“Everything I did in films, I truly lived.”

“Nós somos os propositores: nossa proposição é o diálogo. Sós, não existimos. Estamos à sua mercê.”

“Minha existência poderia ter ficado encoberta pelas muitas montanhas que encobrem as Minas Gerais se, um dia, uma trupe de circo não tivesse passado por lá.”

“The filmmaking comes from God.”

“Drawing is the connecting tissue in my practice, a thinking tool that I use to align my art with poetry.”