Subject: Entertainment » Art (Page 2)

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

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

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

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

If I like it, I say it's mine; if don’t I say it's a fake.

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor

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

(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

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

(1869 – 1954) French artist

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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

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

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

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

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

I've been doing some extremely abstract paintings… no paint, no canvas; I just think about it.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

(1906 – 1965) American sculptor

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought… "What a piece of crap?"

American television producer, screenwriter, executive producer & author

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

(1834 – 1917) French artist

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

At the Last Supper, how come no one sat at the other side of the table?

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor