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

(1834 – 1917) French artist

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor

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

writer, website creator

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

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist

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

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

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

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

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

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses; girls are so much prettier. 

(1883 – 1956) French painter & printmaker

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

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt [an Austrian painter].

Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She’s shown it to everybody.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

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

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

I've been doing some extremely abstract paintings… no paint, no canvas; I just think about it.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

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

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist

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

(1941 – ) American dancer & choreographer