Quotes About Comparison

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

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.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

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

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Envy-Thy art blindness

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.