Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape for artists.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists to get over auction houses, galleries, and high-production-value exhibitions and start using our voices again.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

Every man is an artist.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.