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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

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

(1869 – 1954) French artist

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

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist

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 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

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

(1802 – 1873) English painter

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

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

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

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

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

I doubt that art needed [John] Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.

(1862 – 1952) Australian Prime Minister & politician

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, 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

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian