Haris Pasovic Quotes

The more film festivals, theatrical shows, and music performances and visual arts we have, the less chances there are for war. Art is hope, and it is found in hope, and that's why we need to share our experiences and cherish art.

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.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

When we, the Workers, all demand: “What are we fighting for?’… Then, then we’ll end that stupid crime, that devil’s madness--War.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

The spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men and to extinguish those inflammable humors which have so often kindled into wars.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

Music and fashion complement one another when combined.

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

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

The arts are a major life nourishment.

I'm a pacifist.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.