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

(1941 – ) American dancer & choreographer

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter

If more than ten per cent of the population likes a painting, it should be burned, for it must be bad.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

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

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

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

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

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

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

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

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? … Take them to a museum and say, “This is art, and you can’t do it.”

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

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

American writer

I don’t paint things; I only paint the difference between things.

(1869 – 1954) French artist

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

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

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

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist