Haris Pasovic Quotes

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

Surprise is key in all art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.