Subject: Entertainment » Art

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Why do they call that funny little statue a bust when it stops right before the part of the body that it’s named after?

(1946 – ) American comedian

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

American writer

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

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

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

When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.

(1862 – 1952) Australian Prime Minister & politician

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

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

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

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

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

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

(1834 – 1917) French artist

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter

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

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

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 anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

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

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

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet