Quotes about High Art

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy. Votes: 4

My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty. Votes: 3

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another. Votes: 2

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. Votes: 2

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. Votes: 2

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few. Votes: 2

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. Votes: 2

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.' Votes: 2

I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.' Votes: 2

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art. Votes: 2

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. Votes: 2

I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart. Votes: 2

It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art. Votes: 2

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art. Votes: 2

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. Votes: 0

My art has gained some high value. Votes: 0

I never understood the low art/high art distinction. Votes: 0

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. Votes: 0

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. Votes: 0

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. Votes: 0

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. Votes: 0

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. Votes: 0

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art. Votes: 0

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me. Votes: 0

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. Votes: 0

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. Votes: 0

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. Votes: 0

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art. Votes: 0

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. Votes: 0

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. Votes: 0

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. Votes: 0

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. Votes: 0

I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart. Votes: 0

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. Votes: 0

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school. Votes: 0

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time. Votes: 0

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game. Votes: 0

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. Votes: 0

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. Votes: 0

When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste. Votes: 0

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art. Votes: 0

I'm a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! Votes: 0

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind! Votes: 0

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art. Votes: 0

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line. Votes: 0

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that. Votes: 0

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. Votes: 0

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art. Votes: 0

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. Votes: 0

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses. Votes: 0

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can"¦. The art world is high school with money. Votes: 0

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. Votes: 0

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers. Votes: 0

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time. Votes: 0

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience. Votes: 0

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low. Votes: 0

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. Votes: 0

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. Votes: 0

During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums. Votes: 0

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. Votes: 0

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.' Votes: 0

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else? Votes: 0

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art. Votes: 0

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. Votes: 0

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art. Votes: 0

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary. Votes: 0

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work. Votes: 0

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality. Votes: 0

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. Votes: 0

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism. Votes: 0

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers. Votes: 0

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling. Votes: 0

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. Votes: 0

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave! Votes: 0

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art. Votes: 0

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist? Votes: 0

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think. Votes: 0

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Votes: 0

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black. Votes: 0

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. Votes: 0

America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Votes: 0

Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like. Votes: 0

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. Votes: 0

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice. Votes: 0

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Votes: 0

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. Votes: 0

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art. Votes: 0

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. The trick is moderation, he said. Votes: 0

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read. Votes: 0

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people. Votes: 0