Art

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

“Because I am an artist, and in the kind of art I believe in and to which I have given my whole allegiance, there is no place for anything that has to do with social, economic or political problems.”

“I do want to present myself as an active painter.”

“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.”

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

“I am the canvas.”

“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.”

“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.”