Highbrow Quotes

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Woman, Country

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
Diablo Cody

Movies, Person, Small

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.
James Wolcott

Love, Nothing, Black

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
St. Vincent

Pretty, Culture, Pop

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Irvine Welsh

Society, Sad, Stuff

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
Adrian Edmondson

Truth, Feeling, Why

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Gordon Getty

Music, Write, Accident

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
Maxfield Parrish

Work, Find, Artist

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Alan Patrick Herbert

Person, Looks, Thinks

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