Aleksandar Hemon Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Diversity, People

  "Against Eternal Provincialism: An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 16, 2009.

• There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Connections, Moral

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Stupid, Simplicity

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Narrative, Firsts

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Giving Up, Difficulty

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Believe, Clinging

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Writing, Said

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

• I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Book, School

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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