Line #58 Quotes/TrueArtIsIncomprehensible


1	->''"Who builds these things? What is this supposed to be? ...Is this art? Is this what art is? I don't get art at all."''
2	-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Jacksepticeye}}''', ''VideoGame/{{Skate}} 3'' playthrough
3
4	->''Art used to be something to cherish''
5	->''Now literally anything could be art''
6	->''[[TemptingFate This post is art.]]''
7	-->-- '''[[Website/FourChan 4chan's /pol/]]''', Anon No.33181590, in a post that was [[Main/{{Irony}} subsequently printed out, framed and auctioned on eBay for $90,900.]]
8
9	->''Wait! I'd like to say a word in Art's defense''
10	->''[[NotHelpingYourCase Art doesn't make a lot of sense]]''
11	-->-- '''The Foremen''', "Who Needs Art?"
12
13	->''[[WholesomeCrossdresser Dressing like your sister]]''\
14	''[[ReallyGetsAround Living like a tart]]''\
15	''They don't know what you're doing''\
16	''Babe, it must be art!''
17	-->--'''Music/{{U2}}''', "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
18
19	->''And what about the deal on the flying trapeze?''\
20	''Got a peanut butter hand, but honey''\
21	''Do drop in at the Dew Drop Inn''
22	-->--'''Music/ToriAmos''', "Muhammad My Friend''
23
24	->''If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line, as a man of culture rare,''\
25	''You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.''\
26	''You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind.''\
27	''The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.''\
28	''And everyone will say,''\
29	''As you walk your mystic way,''\
30	''[='=]If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,''\
31	''Why, [[MistakenForProfound what a very singularly deep young man]] this deep young man must be![='=]''
32	-->-- '''Reginald Bunthorne''', ''Theatre/{{Patience}}''
33
34	->'''Comix Scrutinizer''': Remember, [[InvokedTrope it's not art, unless it's incomprehensible]]! (speaking backwards): [[AC:I am a magnet.]] See? Wasn't that brilliant?
35	-->--'''''WebVideo/ComixFromTheUnderground'''''
36
37	->'''Ridcully''': Funny thing, that. That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?\
38	'''Senior Wrangler''': It could be both.\
39	'''Ridcully''': And ''that'' comment is either very perceptive, or very trite.\
40	'''Senior Wrangler''': It might be bo--\
41	'''Ridcully''': Don't push it, Senior Wrangler.
42	-->--'''''Literature/{{Discworld}}''''': ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''
43
44	->''Mountains. Heavy are the mountains. But that changes with the passage of time.\
45	Sky, blue sky. What your eyes can't see. What your eyes can see.\
46	The sun. One, only one.\
47	Water. It is a grey pool. Commander Ikari.\
48	Flowers. So many the same, so many without purpose.\
49	Sky. Sky of red. Red the colour, the colour I hate.\
50	The liquid flows. It drips, ripples, and pours. Blood. Scent of blood, woman who does not bleed.\
51	On the red soil the humans come. Humans made by man and woman.\
52	City. A human creation. EVA. A human creation as well.\
53	What are humans? Are they creations of God? Humans, and that which is created by humans.\
54	This is that which is mine. My life; my heart. I am a vessel for my thoughts.\
55	The entry plug; the throne of the soul. Who is this? This is me.\
56	Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I...\
57	I am I.\
58	This object that is myself, that which forms what is me. This is the self that can be seen and yet it is not like that which is myself.\
59	A strange feeling. My body feels as if it is melting. I can no longer see myself, my form, my shape... It fades from view.\
60	Awareness dawns of someone who is not me; who was here, there, beyond me here.\
61	Shinji? This person I know, Major Katsuragi. Doctor Akagi. People. My classmates. The pilot of Unit 02. Commander Ikari?\
62	Who are you? Who are you? Who are you...''
63	-->--'''Rei Ayanami''', ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''
64
65	->''"The task of art today is to [[TheGadfly bring chaos into order]]."''
66	-->--'''Theodor W. Adorno''', ''Minima Moralia''
67
68	->''Performance Art, I'm the king.\
69	So grab a hammer, nail me to something.\
70	Let's go, to the park and maybe eat a fur coat.\
71	Spray me with blood, and write\
72	The word "guilt" all over my face.\
73	Hurry up, I'm the king of Performance Art\
74	Let's go to the park, Saturday.\
75	I'll eat 100 apples while you burn\
76	My feet, until I scream and people gather around.\
77	Performance Art, is my gig.\
78	I'll stab myself while you squeal like a pig.\
79	Jessica can work the crowd and pass out literature.\
80	The critics won't understand.\
81	No one will, they're programmed by the man.\
82	So let's, take these mannequin parts down to the park.\
83	Performance Art. (Oh, we're so [[[SoundEffectBleep beep]]]ing dark)\
84	Performance Art. (Oh, we're so [[[SoundEffectBleep beep]]]ing dark)\
85	Performance Art.\
86	Performance Art.''
87	-->--''Series/TheSiflAndOllyShow''
88
89	->''"To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but people cannot eat it."''
90	-->--'''Creator/LeoTolstoy'''
91
92	->''"The film is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable."''
93	-->--'''[[CensorshipBureau Unidentified British film censor]]''' on Antonin Artaud's and Germanine Dulac's surrealist film ''La Coquille et le Clergyman''
94
95	->'''''Gibberish For Art's Sake:''' Some writers are convinced that since great modern authors like [[Creator/JamesJoyce Joyce]] and [[Creator/WilliamFaulkner Faulkner]] are difficult to understand, [[PurpleProse writing that is difficult to understand is therefore great writing]]. This is a form of magical thinking, analogous to the belief that [[SympatheticMagic the warrior who dons the pelt of a lion thereby acquires its strength and cunning]].''
96	-->--''Literature/HowNotToWriteANovel''
97
98	->''"It's confusing, obtuse, esoteric, and strange--in other words, it's a ''Far Side'' cartoon."''
99	-->-- '''Gary Larson''' in defense of his most baffling comic panel ever, ''The [=PreHistory=] of ComicStrip/TheFarSide''[[note]]The cartoon being referenced was "CowTools".[[/note]]
100
101	->''"It's so awkwardly conceived, so nonsensical, such a glorious example of bad film-making, that I think it might actually be an art film."''
102	-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on ''{{Film/Showgirls}}''
103
104	->''"Every once in a while, a movie like that comes along; a movie you’ve got to see so that you, too, can be in the dark about it."''
105	-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''
106
107	->Zardoz ''is like a million dollar student film that delights in being weird and bizarre just because it's the trendy thing to do. Now, I'm not saying I like my sci-fi films to be obvious. In fact, nothing could be more boring. But being obtuse just for the sake of being obtuse is, I think, a far greater sin. Because with a film like ''Zardoz'', you know there's a lot of intelligence, skill, and talent up on the screen, but sadly it's all just wasted because no one can make head or tails of anything that's going on."''
108	-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Zardoz_1974.aspx recap]] of ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''
109
110	->''"There is literally no way to figure out what the movie is about just from watching it. Clearly, ''Donnie Darko'' is not supposed to make sense, and the fact that it doesn't make sense means it's brilliant. There is a term for this: [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] pretentious."''
111	-->--'''[[Website/TheAgonyBooth Mr. Mendo's]]''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/video307_Donnie_Darko.aspx review]] of ''Film/DonnieDarko''
112
113	->''"Apparently this is art, but it's, like, art with a question mark at the end of it, like,'' Art?"''
114	-->--'''[[WebVideo/EqualsThree Ray William Johnson]]''' on ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1uDnIPTvo Video WTF Of The Week]]''
115
116	->'''I) The Intellectual:''' Everything in a shot is about lines, metaphors, psychology, sociology, history … or you name it. No element in his pictures is ever the result of hazard since his swift eyes detected and interpreted every single detail before he triggered. Even the lousiest shot becomes the next Michelangelo after going through his everlasting rhetoric. Yet, most often, he is actually the only one to understand, and like his pictures.
117	-->-- "[[http://www.yanidel.net/2011/12/09/10-types-of-street-photographers/ 10 types of street photographers]]"
118
119	->''You know, I'm not the one to question artistic taste, but what the '''heck''' is this supposed to be a picture of? Is that [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Navi]]? [[{{Film/Avatar}} Navi]], is that you?''
120	-->-- ''[[https://youtu.be/ZiP3KSu3FA4 64 Things WRONG With]] VideoGame/SuperMario64''
121
122	->''You have to have ideas that relate to everyone, that everyone can understand, not come out here and do things that are over the audience's head. Otherwise, you may as well be like, uh... Dimitri in'' [[LeFilmArtistique La Conditione Humane]]''... or Eduardo in'' [[Administrivia/ExampleAsAThesis The Possessed]]''.''
123	-->--'''Creator/SteveMartin''', from a 1978 ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' monologue
124
125	->''I love to write my poetry\
126	You wont know what it means\
127	But that’s what makes it deep.''
128	-->-- "[=GTFO=] My Room", by '''Ryan Higa'''
129
130	->'''Bolin''': Wow, that's a really nice... banana? Yes, very... Very life-like!\
131	'''Huan Beifong''': (sigh) '''''It's not a banana!''''' It was inspired by the Harmonic Convergence. It represents the dawning of a new aaaage.... ''Obviously!''\
132	'''Bolin''': Oh, yeah no I could... I could totally see that, I could whu-lemme stand here, yeah, I can see that now, yes. Thank you.\
133	(beat)\
134	'''Bolin''': (sotto voce, walking away): ''Ba-naa-naaa...'' I mean that's a banana, right?
135	-->--''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' [=S3E5=]: "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS3E5TheMetalClan The Metal Clan]]"
136
137	->'''Narration:''' The quickest way to get ahead in the art world is to appear to be insane.\
138	'''Artist:''' This is my sculpture. ''(Pointing at empty plinth)''\
139	'''Viewer:''' What is?\
140	'''Artist:''' This pointing hand.\
141	'''Viewer:''' [[MistakenForProfound Whoaaa]]...\
142	''[later in the same comic]''\
143	'''Woman:''' I don't get it.\
144	'''Man:''' ''Exactly''.\
145	'''Woman:''' What does that even mean?\
146	'''Man:''' Oh, sorry, I'm a performance artist. My thing is saying "''Exactly''".
147	-->-- ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''
148
149	->''And the funniest thing about it is seeing some of the critical responses, people saying "Yes, its incredibly boring and incomprehensible, but so boring and incomprehensible that it must be really quite profound."''
150	-->--'''Creator/MarkKermode''' on ''Film Socialisme''
151
152	->''I don't have to prove that I am creative''\
153	''I don't have to prove that I am creative''\
154	''All my pictures are confused''\
155	''And now I'm going to take me to you''
156	-->--'''Music/TalkingHeads''', "Artists Only"
157
158	->''Nothing in Mr. Sunshine's summary made sense. It defied structure, logic, the game's core design, and any concept of quality I had ever known. The choices he made were so baffling that I began to question whether it might be a work of genius beyond my comprehension.''\
159	''I needed a fresh pair of eyes, so I sent the summary to Bonnie. Her reaction would tell me whether Mr. Sunshine was a buffoon or I was a lowly gnat incapable of appreciating his majesty.''\
160	''Three minutes later, I had my answer.''\
161	''"[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext THEY'RE EATING NACHOS?!?!]]"''\
162	''[[AvertedTrope Thank God. It was a piece of shit.]]''
163	-->--'''Walt Williams''', ''Significant Zero'' (To provide context: The book is non-fiction, about the development of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', among other games; "Mr. Sunshine" is provided as an example of a would-be Video-game writer who doesn't work out.)
164
165	->'''Shining Armor:''' Is this art, or a mistake? \
166	'''Princess Cadance:''' I have no idea.
167	-->--''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E3AFlurryOfEmotions A Flurry of Emotions]]"
168
169	->''This must be one of those ugly modern art projects. I don't see the point of these.''
170	-->-- One of the painting clues in the Egg Hunt 2020 segment of ''[[https://www.roblox.com/games/3203685552/BEAR-Alpha BEAR]]'', a Platform/{{Roblox}} game
171
172	->''Real art is dense and difficult. If it didn't feel like you had to wrestle a suicidal bear to get through it, you weren't really reading.''
173	-->-- '''Conceptualization''', ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium''
174
175	-> ''Well, it's pretty to look at, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.''
176	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny]]''' on a procedurally generated piece of art
177
178	->'''Kaladin:''' Your stories always have a point.\
179	'''Wit:''' I am an ''artist''. I should thank you not to demean me by insisting my art must be trying to ''accomplish'' something. In fact, you shouldn't enjoy art. You should simply admit that it exists, then move on. Anything else is patronizing.
180	-->-- ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' (fourth book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')
181
182	->''I'm proud to say my poetry is only understood by that minority which is aware.''
183	-->--'''Maxwell H. Brock''', ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''
184
185	->''It's confusing, which means the show is daring and smart.''
186	-->-- '''Princess Carolyn''' on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Philbert]]'', ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''
187
188	->''As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.''
189	-->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
190
191	->''"If I could explain these I wouldn't have to make them."''
192	-->-- '''Freya Neilson''', ''Film/TheseAreTheDamned''
193
194	->'''Scott:''' Polly, I don't think I get art.\
195	'''Polly:''' It's okay. No one does.
196	-->-- ''[[VisualNovel/MonsterProm Monster Roadtrip]]''
197
198	->''"So, can you paint stuff that looks like stuff, or do you just make art?"''
199	-->-- '''Larry Pye''', to Edison Lighthouse, ''Webcomic/GroovyKinda'' [[http://groovykinda.org/comic/ringleader-2/ #3: "Ringleader"]]

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