Wagner Moura Quotes

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

One of the greatest things about the theatre is how it can completely change the way you see the world around you. 'Dear Evan Hansen' did this for me.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

The only serious function films can serve is to act as a record of their times.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

In my shows, I always try to incorporate music because it's the most natural way to set a tone. So if I want to do a show about depression, I use the opera. If I want to do a show about greed, I use spoken word. If I want to do a show about the injustice that's taking place in the world, I might play Sam Cooke.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.