Subject: Entertainment » Art

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer

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

(1834 – 1917) French artist

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

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

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

(1941 – ) American dancer & choreographer

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

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

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali; he was using a dotted line… he caught every other fish.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

American writer

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 science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

(1869 – 1954) French artist

If more than ten per cent of the population likes a painting, it should be burned, for it must be bad.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & 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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

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

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

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist