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February 6, 2006
makhmalbaf (two)
In choosing from among religion, politics, and art, I choose art. In the same way that art has instructed and educated me, I feel that my own responsibility is to continue to educate myself through art, since I thereby become more knowledgeable...My hope is that the viewer of my work for an hour and a half will during this time, to a small extent, breathe in an air which is a somewhat different form than in which he or she lives. If successful, this will be no more than a very smart, almost insignificant achievement. I don't believe that I'm doing anything very significant. But I can do nothing else, and I must do something. But the significant of what I do is not very important to me. Its nature, its quality, is what is important to me...My influence is small, and I influence no one more than I influence myself.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Posted by amin at February 6, 2006 2:24 PM