High Art Quotes - Page 2

• High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Cities, Eternal

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 43-45, 1922.

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• To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Block, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Thinking, Knowing

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• 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.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Photography, Art, Real

  Julia Margaret Cameron, J. Paul Getty Museum (1996). “Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.6, Getty Publications

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• 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.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, People, Black

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1971). “Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965”

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• 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.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Advertising, Selling

  Gore Vidal (1988). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Random House Inc

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• High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Winning, Lovely

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.35

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• 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.

  Russell Banks

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• 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.

  Radha Mitchell

  Art, Ideas, America

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

  Eric Rohmer

  Art, Thinking, Repose

  "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

  Will Self

  Art, Long, Literature

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• 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.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Art, Doubt, Library

  John Godfrey Saxe (1871). “Poems”, p.297

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• In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Jobs, Law

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

  O. Henry

  Art, Village, Lows

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• 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.

  Kevin Bleyer

  Art, Mind, Television

  "Don’t Watch" by Kevin Bleyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2005.

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