Subject: Entertainment » Art (Page 3)

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
Art Entertainment Situations

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Art Entertainment

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

(1848 – 1907) Irish-born American sculptor
Art Entertainment

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist
Art Entertainment

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
Art Entertainment Food/Drink

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

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor
Art Entertainment

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Art Money People

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

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

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
Art Entertainment

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

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

American writer
Art Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

The Mushroom in Christian Art

Art Book Titles

Sex is like art; most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

writer, website creator
Art Money Sex

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

(1967 – ) English comedian
Art Entertainment

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Art Entertainment Thinking

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Art Entertainment Life Television

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

(1834 – 1917) French artist
Art Entertainment

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

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

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

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

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist
Art Entertainment

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

(1958 – ) Australian author
Art Entertainment Money