Haris Pasovic Quotes

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Art for me is like breathing.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

I like being creative.

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.