High Art Quotes: top 78 famous quotes about High Art

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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

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football? — Art Donovan

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. — Samuel R. Delany

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. (p. 12) — James Gurney

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. — Edward Tufte

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. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be? — Hal Duncan

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. — Yayoi Kusama

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. — Walter Darby Bannard

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs ... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact. — Voltaire

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. — James Whistler

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. — Goldwin Smith

My art has gained some high value. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them. — Amy Heckerling

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

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

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. — Adrienne Monnier

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love. — Molly Crabapple

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. — Maira Kalman

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. — Swami Vivekananda

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. — Theophile Gautier

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. — Gage Taylor

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne

The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any. — Miranda Hart

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

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. — Charles Hazlewood

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. — Frederic C. Howe

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! — George Carlin

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

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. — Margaret Of Valois

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. — Brad Holland

You have to admit that this is a very strange life. If you don't admit it, then you have a very high threshold for strangeness, and more power to you. — Art Hochberg

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

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another. — Eric Rohmer

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. — Tina Brown

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. — Kevin Munroe

Wherever there is art, there is a staircase over there where you can ascend to the high places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art. — Robert Genn

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. — Leslie Fiedler

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school. — ASAP Ferg

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time. — Antony Gormley

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master. — Sol Luckman

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. — Ray Harryhausen

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art. — Tracey Emin

I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art. — Chase Jarvis

...among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very high degree. — Maria Gentile

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. — Van Morrison

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. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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. — Neil Gaiman

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. — Aldous Huxley

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. — Bruce Beresford

self-annihilation is necessary for high art — Kunal Sen

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. — Al Pacino

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together. — Alice Cooper

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. — John Currin

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that. — Mack Sennett

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. — David Crabb

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

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. — John Fowles

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

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane. — Beyonce Knowles

But thou art all my art, and dost advance
As high as learning my rude ignorance. — William Shakespeare

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. — John Ruskin

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. — Douglas Brinkley

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. — Mark Twain

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. — Stendhal

I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart. — Iggy Azalea

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can ... . The art world is high school with money. — Jerry Saltz

Woe is me! how high art Thou in the highest, and how deep in the deepest! and Thou never departest, and we scarcely return to Thee. — Augustine Of Hippo

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality. — Hussein Chalayan

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. — David LaChapelle

I never understood the low art/high art distinction. — Matt Tong