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The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist

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

(1941 – ) American dancer & choreographer

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

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

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

(1958 – ) Australian author

At the Last Supper, how come no one sat at the other side of the table?

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

The only proof of taste Beckford has shown with his collection is getting rid of it.

(1778 – 1830) English writer, essayist, critic, grammarian & philosopher

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

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

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

(1905 – 1982) American poet, translator & critical essayist

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali; he was using a dotted line… he caught every other fish.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

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

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

American writer

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes; art is knowing which ones to keep.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

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

writer, website creator

The Venus de Milo is a good example of what happens to somebody who won't stop biting her fingernails.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

(1834 – 1917) French artist

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