Annoying Quote by Douglas Coupland

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

— Reese Witherspoon

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

— Lou Reed

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going…

— Richard Phillips

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside…

— Jerry Saltz

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru…

— Mark Fisher

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with…

— Edward Albee

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push…

— Tuppence Middleton

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

— Michael Landon, Jr

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

— Billy Connolly

In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of…

— Richard Tuttle

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

— Steve Martin