If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
Art is not meant to change the world.
To create a work of art is to create the world.
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.