Haris Pasovic Quotes

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

My number-one hero in terms of interdisciplinary art is Laurie Anderson, but I've always admired anyone who can think way beyond any one medium.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.

I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

You really can't bring about anything new with art.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.