“Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.” WritingArtSaid Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“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.” ArtBookSchoolPoliticalLiteratureGoalWrittenDefinedIdeological Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.” ArtMoralConnectionsConsumptionStamina Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“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.” ShouldArtMightSubjectsStupidSimplicityWhimIdiotic Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“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.” FirstsArtCan DoConsciousnessFictionArt IsFirst TimeNarrativeConstructsNarrative Art Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“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.” KnowsGivingArtI CanGiving UpDifficultyNotionDespiteNobility Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“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.” IfsKnowsBelieveArtStillsNotionNobilityClinging Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“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.” PeopleArtLanguageDiversityInfiniteSample Author:Aleksandar Hemon
