“A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”

— A. P. Herbert , book Uncommon Law

"Is 'Highbrow' Libellous?"
Uncommon Law (1935)

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British politician 1890–1971

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

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“Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

“I’m a little bit highbrow and a little bit trashy…That’s what I think good storytelling is. If you can lure in an audience and have a good time with them, but also teach them what it’s like — to be a person of color, to be poor — that’s a success.”

Christopher Oscar Peña

On how he defines good storytelling in “San Jose’s Christopher Oscar Peña no longer ‘Insecure’ about work” https://www.sfchronicle.com/tv/article/San-Jose-s-Christopher-Oscar-Pe-a-no-longer-11297163.php in SF Gate (2017 Jul 18)

“If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.”

Georges Braque (1882–1963) French painter and sculptor

Source: 1946 - 1963, In conversation with Dora Vallier' (1954), p. 265

“Will Scarlet Blinkin, fix your boobs, you look like a bleeding Picasso.”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

“You know, I look like a duck. I just do. And I'm not the only person who thinks that.”

Michelle Pfeiffer (1958) American actress

People magazine (1990) http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20128142,00.html
Context: You know, I look like a duck. I just do. And I'm not the only person who thinks that. It's the way my mouth sort of curls up or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

“You're the kind of person that looks like a quarter but acts like a penny…”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?"

"Look it up in the phrase book.”

Regina Doman (1970) American writer

Source: Black as Night

“It’s almost the not-knowing that’s sexy. When the look is too contrived… Trying to assimilate a look to be sexy to me is pretty transparent in the first place. So… somebody who just kind of stumbles into a sexy look… who’s not been thinking about fashion at all…”

Marc Jacobs (1963) American fashion designer

Jonkers, Gert (2003). "Friendly homosexual fashion designer likes dogs but finds fashionable men terribly unsexy" http://www.buttmagazine.com/Issues/7_Jacobs.html buttmagazine.com (accessed April 19, 2007)
On clothes and sex

“A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”

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