High Art Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.