Akshaye Khanna Quotes

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

I'm not ashamed of any work I do. You can't decide a film's fate before its release. There's no surety that your new films will be better or worse than your previous ones. You can only hope to surpass your efforts.