Artistic Snobbery Quotes

Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

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

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel Merman and trombones blasting in the background and who knows what else.

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.

I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is somehow a debased version of his or her preferred form.

I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.