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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

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

(1869 – 1954) French artist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

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

Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist

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

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.

(1840 – 1917) French sculptor

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

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

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes; art is knowing which ones to keep.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

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

American writer

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

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

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist