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High Art Quotes

High art quotes challenge assumptions about where real craft lives, comparing fashion and cooking to fine art, and even suggesting that great television or basic cable can rise to high art once enough hindsight is applied to appreciate it.

Several quotes debate what belongs in Art at all, questioning old boundaries between fashion, food, and traditionally serious craft.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Quotes by Rik Mayall

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....

Quotes by Patrick Stump

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.

Quotes by Molly Crabapple

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

Quotes by Mario Batali

Art Quotes

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.'

Quotes by Kevin Bleyer

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

Quotes by Eric Rohmer

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for...

Quotes by David Furnish

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.

Quotes by Charles Hazlewood

Frequently Asked Questions

Does one quote call fashion a form of high art?
Yes, one quote from a self-described artist calls fashion high art at times, while admitting it can also feel like hack work depending on the moment. It argues fashion still deserves genuine study and appreciation.
How is cooking compared to high art in these quotes?
One quote describes a real tension between what a cook considers high art and what a customer simply wants to eat. It captures the gap between creative ambition and practical, everyday expectations.
Is insanity described as a form of high art here?
Yes, one quote calls insanity a very high art form, adding humorously that if everyone were insane, the speaker would not exist to say so. It uses exaggeration to make a playful point about creativity and mental extremes.
Does television count as high art according to one quote?
One quote suggests that great television, literature, and even basic cable can rise to high art once enough hindsight is applied to appreciate them. It uses 'M.A.S.H.' and 'The Iliad' as examples spanning very different eras.
How do these high art quotes connect to broader debates about taste?
Together, these quotes describe an ongoing Battle over what truly counts as Art versus mere entertainment. That disagreement suggests Everyone ultimately draws the line somewhere different.

Others describe a real Battle over taste, one that Everyone seems to judge a little differently.