Art Comparison Quotes

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.