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serious art came from . . . . out there! — Stephen King

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. — Twyla Tharp

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. — Rachel Kushner

Had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. — Giorgio Moroder

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. — Chinua Achebe

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. — W. H. Auden

Art is one of man's few serious activities. — Austin O'Malley

I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world. — David Foster Wallace

Art is a serious matter — Umberto Eco

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. — Lester Bangs

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. — Jeffrey Deitch

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. — Twyla Tharp

Art must always remain earnest ... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. — Arshile Gorky

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279). — Richard Baxter

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art. — Gerhard Richter

Life is serious but art is fun! — John Irving

Better far
Pursue a frivolous trade by serious means,
Than a sublime art frivolously. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Happiness is an angel with a serious face — Amedeo Modigliani

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. — John Irving

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter. — Julien Torma

The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful and desperately serious; and — Tom Stoppard

Serious art is born from serious play. — Julia Cameron

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail. — Chali 2na

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. — Julia Child

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde

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. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. — Iris Murdoch

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. — Peter Beard

All my works are games, serious game. — M.C. Escher

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is. — Kurt Schwitters

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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