History Quotes / TrueArtIsIncomprehensible

-->-- One of the painting clues in the Egg Hunt 2020 segment of ''[[https://www.roblox.com/games/3203685552/BEAR-Alpha BEAR]]'', a VideoGame/{{Roblox}} game

-->-- LetsPlay/JackSepticEye, ''VideoGame/{{Skate}} 3'' playthrough

-->-- '''[[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.]]

-->-- '''[[Website/FourChan 4Chan's /pol/]]''', Anon No.33181590, in a post that was [[Main/{{Irony}} subsequently printed out, framed and auctioned on]] ''[[Website/{{EBay}} eBay]]'' [[Main/{{Irony}} for $90,900.]]

->''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'' [[ExampleAsAThesis The Possessed]]''.''

->''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.''

->''The task of art today is to [[TheGadfly bring chaos into order]].''

->''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.''

->''The film is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable''

->''It's confusing, obtuse, esoteric, and strange--in other words, it's a ''Far Side'' cartoon.''

->''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.''

->''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.''

->''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.''

->''Apparently this is art, but it's, like, art with a question mark at the end of it, like,'' Art?

-->--'''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.)

->'''Ridicully''': 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?\\

'''Ridicully''': And ''that'' comment is either very perceptive, or very trite.\\

'''Ridicully''': Don't push it, Senior Wrangler.

'''Viewer:''' [[MistakenForProfound Whoaaa]]...

->"If I could explain these I wouldn't have to make them."

-->-- '''Freya Neilsen''', ''Film/TheseAreTheDamned''

-->-- ''LetsPlay/JackSepticEye'', ''Skate 3 playthrough''

->'' 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.''
--> ''LetsPlay/JackSepticEye'', ''Skate 3 playthrough''

->''"Wait! I'd like to say a word in Art's defense''
->''[[NotHelpingYourCase Art doesn't make a lot of sense]]"''

->''"[[WholesomeCrossdresser Dressing like your sister]]''\\

''Babe, it must be art!"''

->''"and what about the deal on that flying''\\
''trapeze got a peanut butter hand''\\
''but honey do drop in at the''\\
''dew drop inn"''

->''"If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line, as a man of culture rare,''\\

''Why, [[MistakenForProfound what a very singularly deep young man]] this deep young man must be![='=]"''

->'''Comix Scrutinizer''': Remember, [[InvokedTrope it's not art, unless it's incomprehensible]]! '' (speaking backwards): [[AC:I am a magnet.]] See? Wasn't that brilliant?

->''"Mountains. Heavy are the mountains. But that changes with the passage of time.\\

Who are you? Who are you? Who are you..."''

->''"The task of art today is to [[TheGadfly bring chaos into order]]."''

->''"Performance Art, I'm the king.\\

Performance Art."''

->''"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."''

->''"The film is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable"''

->''"'''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]]."''

->''"It's confusing, obtuse, esoteric, and strange--in other words, it's a ''Far Side'' cartoon."''

->''"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."''

->''"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."''

->''"''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."''

->''"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."''

->''"Apparently this is art, but it's, like, art with a question mark at the end of it, like, ''Art?''"''

-->-- ''"[[http://www.yanidel.net/2011/12/09/10-types-of-street-photographers/ 10 types of street photographers]]"''

->A {{Meta}} example:
->''"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 ''[[ExampleAsAThesis The Possessed]]''"''.

->''"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."''

->''"I'm proud to say my poetry is only understood by that minority which is aware."''

->'''"It's confusing, which means the show is daring and smart."'''

->'''"As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance."'''

->"It's confusing, which means the show is daring and smart."

->"As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance."

->''"Hello [[Creator/JohnnyDepp John]], it's Creator/RonHoward. I'm looking at your contract here, and I know I am 'to honor any and all of Mr. Depp' acting choices [[ThePrimaDonna even if they are poorly motivated or downright effeminately contrarian]],' but can we talk about this? Look, I love Creator/ShirleyTemple as much as the next guy. And I think I figured out a way you can keep the curly wig, but can we lose [[WholesomeCrossDresser the 'good ship lollipop' dress?]] Please? I'm begging you. I mean, this is ''The Jonas Salk Story.'' Also, let me know what you think about those 15 scenes that are all in slow motion with violin music."''
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_14911_messages-from-johnny-depps-voice-mail.html#ixzz2fsTjS9Po Messages from Johnny Depp's Voice Mail]]"

->''"“If you look at something like ''Series/TheWestWing'',” he explains, “I’m not sure I’ve ever understood a single episode.” But he still identifies it as “probably my favorite thing ever.” His reasoning is that “an awful lot of storytelling isn’t really about making people understand -- it’s about making people care.”... [[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] has simply walked away from the series lore and decided to make television with strange pictures like it’s a new medium nobody understands. This isn’t a sort of television or a sort of narrative structure anyone has ever done before."''
-->--'''El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/04/here-standing-in-front-of-you-time-of.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]]