Subject: Entertainment » Art

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

(1802 – 1873) English painter

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor

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

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

(1883 – 1956) French painter & printmaker

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

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

If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Many are willing to suffer for their art.. few are willing to learn to draw.

(1967 – ) English comedian

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

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

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

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

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

(1906 – 1965) American sculptor

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

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

The Mushroom in Christian Art

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist