Ashkan Kooshanejad famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.
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I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.
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I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.
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At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.
-- Ashkan Kooshanejad
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
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In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
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Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.
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The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.
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Our choices determine our destiny
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Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.
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I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
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