High Art Quotes

• ‎"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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Brave New World, People

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

  Archilochus

  Art, Hurt, Warrior

  "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.

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• The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

  Edward Tufte

  Beauty, Art, Evidence

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• I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

  Richard Wagner

  Believe, I Believe, Believe In God

  Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.66, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Ibn Warraq

  Art, Civilization, Taste

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• 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.

  Matt Tong

  Art, Thinking, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

  Margaret of Valois

  Art, Appreciate, Produce

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• Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.

  C.E. Morgan

  Art, Clever, Book

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, Strong, Art

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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

  Willa Cather

  Art, Cooking, Made

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.146, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  Art, Fun, Kids

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• 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.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Distance, Quality

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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

  Mario Batali

  Funny, Art, Thinking

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• I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Truth, Believe

  "Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays".

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

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Art, Children, Book

  Brian K. Vaughan (2014). “Saga, Vol. 3”, p.50, Image Comics

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

  Wayne White

  Art, Lines, Should

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.36, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Book, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.387, Modern Library

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• The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Museums, Illustration

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• There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may benothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. 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. Some have this merit only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

  Matt Tong

  Art, Lows, Distinction

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Erykah Badu

  Fashion, Art, Delicacy

  "Erykah Badu On Pyer Moss's Honest Activism". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Moving, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Stephen Marche

  Art, Cities, Mainstream Culture

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

  Clement Greenberg

  Photography, Art, Bases

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