Artistic Superiority Quotes

I've always been an elite artist.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

To me, I'm on a whole different level of rapping.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

My album is better than 'Sgt. Pepper.'

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.

I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.