Alex Hirsch Quotes

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

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

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

If you look at the things I'm drawn to, it's always stuff that's got a lot of imagination and heart.

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.