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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

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American 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

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

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

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

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

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

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

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

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

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

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

(1840 – 1917) French 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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter