Creativity Quote by Art Garfunkel

Art Garfunkel’s line lands like a deadpan riff on how we talk about music when we’re trying to sound authoritative but have run out of anything concrete to say. “Records have images” is technically true and comically beside the point; it yanks the conversation away from lofty claims about artistry and into the blunt physicality of the object. It’s the voice of someone staring at an LP sleeve and refusing to perform profundity on command.

The triplet that follows - “wet records and dry records. And big records” - plays like a parody of classification itself. “Wet” and “dry” aren’t meaningful categories in record-collector discourse; they’re tactile, almost absurdly domestic descriptors, like laundry or weather. Then “big records” arrives as a childlike punchline, the kind of taxonomy that collapses under its own simplicity. The humor isn’t just in the randomness; it’s in how language can mimic expertise through confident sorting, even when the sorting is nonsense.

Context matters because Garfunkel comes from an era when “the record” was both sacred artifact and mass-produced commodity: cover art, liner notes, the whole semi-religious ritual of ownership. This quote pokes at that mythology without bitterness. It’s a musician reminding us that the cultural machine around music - criticism, collecting, branding - often inflates objects into symbols, while the artist, tired or amused, can still look at the whole thing and say: it’s a thing. It has a picture. Sometimes it gets wet. Sometimes it’s big.