Creativity

“The prototype in nature has got to be seen through terms of art. A metamorphosis has to take place.”

“I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting.”

“From the moment you get on a theater stage, from the moment you go up there, on this stage, you become a poem.”

“I prefer my vision until the artist shows me otherwise, which they often do.”

“Dulu, filem kita disanjung tinggi kerana cerita dan kandungan yang mengangkat budaya hingga meninggalkan impak dari generasi ke generasi walaupun ia diterbitkan dalam kekangan modal dan teknologi.”

“To make a film is easy, to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.”

“It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.”

“His work ought not to be a dead imitation of things without the power to impress a sentiment, or enforce a truth.”

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

“The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.”

“La création est une odyssée sans escale.”

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

“I never sit down to write a “hit record.””

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

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

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

“Everyone is an artist.”

““I felt like changing from the monotonous tunes of the harmonium and the piano, with this western music—everything sounded the same every day, every week. I said, ‘There should be drums here.’””