When it comes to
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste. Erykah Badu
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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
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another. Eric Rohmer
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. Edward Tufte
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
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art. Clement Greenberg
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
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more