Marianne Elliott Quotes

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

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.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish them into a box and, eventually, throws the box out.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.