Quotes about Serious Art

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. Votes: 3

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. Votes: 3

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. Votes: 3

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts. Votes: 3

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. Votes: 3

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories. Votes: 3

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie. Votes: 3

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time. Votes: 3

The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's. Votes: 3

From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks. Votes: 3

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. Votes: 3

Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens. Votes: 3

All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world. Votes: 3

The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality. Votes: 3

Art is too serious to be taken seriously. Votes: 1

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. Votes: 1

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. Votes: 1

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art. Votes: 1

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Votes: 1

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. Votes: 1

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. Votes: 1

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. Votes: 1

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film. Votes: 1

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. Votes: 1

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it. Votes: 1

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. Votes: 1

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges. Votes: 1

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times. Votes: 1

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form. Votes: 1

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument. Votes: 1

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: 1

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. Votes: 1

Life is serious but art is fun! Votes: 0

Serious art is born from serious play. Votes: 0

Art is one of man's few serious activities. Votes: 0

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is. Votes: 0

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter. Votes: 0

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. Votes: 0

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail. Votes: 0

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art. Votes: 0

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. Votes: 0

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. Votes: 0

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form." Votes: 0

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. Votes: 0

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Votes: 0

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. Votes: 0

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious. Votes: 0

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. Votes: 0

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. Votes: 0

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor. Votes: 0