This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
To be an artist, one must. . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
All art is propaganda. . . . The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. . . . Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. . . . Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. . . . I want to use my art as a weapon.
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.
There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
I'm not a control maniac.
Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.