Subject: Entertainment » Art

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

(1941 – ) American dancer & choreographer

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

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

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

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

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

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

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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

The only proof of taste Beckford has shown with his collection is getting rid of it.

(1778 – 1830) English writer, essayist, critic, grammarian & philosopher

Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with.

(1906 – 1965) American sculptor

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

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

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

(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

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist