Haskell Wexler Quotes

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

I love art. It is uplifting.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.