Andrea: “Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.”
Galileo: “No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.”

—Bertolt Brecht

For us, a revolutionary people in a revolutionary process, we value cultural and artistic creations in regards to how they serve the people, in regards to what they contribute to man, in regards to what they contribute to man’s vindication, to man’s liberation, to man’s happiness. Our assessment is political. There can’t be aesthetic value without human content. There can’t be aesthetic value against man. There can’t be aesthetic value against justice, against well-being, against liberation, against man’s happiness.

—Fidel Castro