Art

“The role of the poet has never changed ever since there was poetry.”

“For me, the essence of cinema is a human face speaking.”

“A blank canvas is much more inviting to me than a blank page.”

“Opera is not elitist. Most of us are from very ordinary backgrounds.”

“The great alphabet of our art is the human figure.”

“My life is still full of music and I enjoy the warmth of an audience so I will still perform for a long, long time to come.”

“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.”

“We believe that art is life and conversely, life is art.”

“That was the moment that I realised the power of the arts and theatre to change society.”

“Drawing is a universal language.”

“Yo comencé a cantar en medio de la gente hasta que Agustín notó mi voz y me pidió que cantara la misma canción, pero ahora yo sola.”

“My music is about my life and I try to keep it as real as possible.”

“An artist can be an educationalist and art is an educational and civilizational tool.”

“Filmmaking is not a one man show.”

“Art had changed rhythm.”

“Cinema endures.”

“I know that my paintings declare absolutely everything. Nothing is hidden whatsoever.”

“When I painted him, he had just had a set of false teeth inserted, which accounts for the constrained expression so noticeable about the mouth and lower part of the face.”