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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor

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

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

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

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

Many are willing to suffer for their art.. few are willing to learn to draw.

(1967 – ) English comedian

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

Photograph: A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

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

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? 

(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

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

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

(1802 – 1873) English painter

If Botticelli were alive today, he’d be working for Vogue.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

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

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

(1869 – 1954) French artist

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

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