Christian Lacroix Quotes

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

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

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

I believe in art.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.