In the past, traditional art ...

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.
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 Tawfiq al-Hakim

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True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.
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 Tawfiq al-Hakim
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.
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 Tawfiq al-Hakim