Subject: Entertainment » Art

Mr Lewis’ pictures appeared to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

No great artist ever sees things as they really are; if he did, he would cease to be an artist.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.  

(1834 – 1917) French artist

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.

(1840 – 1917) French sculptor

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt [an Austrian painter].

Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She’s shown it to everybody.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures; of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

It resembles a tortoise shell cat having a fit in a plate of tomatoes.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Sex is like art; most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

writer, website creator

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought… "What a piece of crap?"

American television producer, screenwriter, executive producer & author

I've been doing some extremely abstract paintings… no paint, no canvas; I just think about it.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with.

(1906 – 1965) American sculptor