Subject: Entertainment » Art

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

(1802 – 1873) English painter

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire?… the one nearest the door of course.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

writer, website creator

Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

Abstract Art: The proof that things are not as bad as they are painted to be.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

If I like it, I say it's mine; if don’t I say it's a fake.

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

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

It makes me look as if I were straining a stool.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

(1941 – ) American dancer & choreographer

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

I always ask the sitter if they want truth or flattery; they always ask for truth, and I always give them flattery.

(1911 – 1990) English painter

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

Why do they call that funny little statue a bust when it stops right before the part of the body that it’s named after?

(1946 – ) American comedian

Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

(1903 – 1970) Russian artist

If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

(1889 – 1963) French poet, novelist, playwright, artist & filmmaker